Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: unions

Why this union paramedic treats an epidemic of inequality

Union members harness the power of collective action to move all ahead. We lift each other up and draw strength from one another.

How union members pay it forward

More and more workers want to join unions amid the high grocery prices, spiraling health care costs and other failures of today’s uncertain economy.

Federal silence deepens scrutiny after killing of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti

Nearly three days after the shooting, DHS has withheld shooter identities as video evidence, lawmakers, and unions challenge the administration’s account.

Massive Kaiser strike exposes deepening conflict over staffing, care, and corporate...

More than 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers walk off the job amid claims of unsafe conditions and stalled negotiations.

House vote moves to undo Trump orders stripping union rights from...

A bipartisan majority backed the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse what labor leaders call the “single-largest act of union busting in American history,” restoring collective bargaining protections for nearly 1 million federal employees.

Trump order to crush federal unions faces rare bipartisan revolt in...

House members force a vote on the Protect America’s Workforce Act after Trump ended collective bargaining rights for nearly one million federal employees.

Zohran Mamdani’s movement victory reshapes New York politics

A data-driven look at the coalition, turnout, and affordability agenda that defeated a billionaire-backed machine and what it means for governing.

Wells Fargo workers push to bring a union to the banking...

CWA launched the Committee for Better Banks a decade ago, with the goals of organizing bank workers and empowering them to assist regulators’ efforts to monitor the finance industry.

How grassroots union activists fight Trump, Republican callousness

One man is battling the callousness of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have the power to help but prefer to inflict additional hardships on the people they ostensibly represent.

United Steelworkers lead mobilization drive as American unions face growing vulnerability

The USW must navigate factionalism while championing labor rights amid rising anti-union pressures and global trade fragmentation.

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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.

Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California

A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.