Tag: labor

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Often, winning something in your contract is only half the battle—the other half is enforcing it. It was a huge win in 2023 when our national contract campaign made UPS end its two-tier driver program. After the lower-tier drivers moved up to regular, our center in Charleston, South Carolina, had 91 full-time delivery drivers. But over time, drivers left, and eventually our center dropped down to 75. When we asked management to fill vacant jobs, they said we had adequate staffing. We filed grievances. They were denied because we had not proved we needed more staffing.

Use of the tools is concentrated among college graduates and six-figure earners. Six percent of workers said they expect workers to be the main beneficiaries.

Missouri voters overturned a right-to-work law at the ballot box in 2018. In August they decide whether to make citizen-led referendums far harder to use.

Because unions provide a voice on wages, safety, and other issues, they empower workers at a moment when a depressing sense of helplessness haunts many other Americans.

About 4,500 nurses and home-care clinicians walked out after contract talks with Mass General Brigham broke down over pay, staffing, insurance costs, and patient care.

A federal judge declined to pause expanded Labor Department reporting requirements that unions say will bury them in paperwork and divert money from organizing and bargaining.

Advocacy groups like Business for a Fair Minimum Wage highlighted that a higher wage floor creates a level playing field, reduces costly employee turnover, and increases consumer spending power.

To counter Big Tech’s narrative of AI inevitability, movements are beginning to resist on many fronts where this dangerous tech is being deployed.

To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.