Tag: labor unions
How Tim Walz showed he has workers’ backs
Walz knows that empowering workers also means building a stronger economy.
UAW files federal charges against Trump and Musk over anti-union intimidation
Union accuses Trump and Musk of illegal threats as the fight over workers’ rights intensifies.
How workers are revolutionizing the South
Local 1025 members shared firsthand accounts of how the union boosted their wages, gave them a voice, and kept them safe on the job.
How solidarity triumphs over corporate greed
“Stay the course. Even if it sometimes doesn’t feel like it, you are winning.”
Bezos and Musk vs. workers
These corporations win this fight only if the public doesn’t know what’s happening.
Why corporations choose lawlessness to fight unions
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
How workers are defying Republican officials in the South
More and more workers across the South seek the same path forward that union membership provides.
How union workers build the middle class
Well-compensated union workers, in turn, support small businesses, schools, and other amenities needed to sustain strong communities.
UAW strike expands to Mack Trucks
The tentative contract included a raise of 19% over five years.
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California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger
Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.