Negotiations will take place in 2023 for some of the biggest contracts in the labor movement, including at UPS and the Big…
āToday I believe we as workers are more united than everā
Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election to decide which union will represent the plantās 6,500 workers
Nowās the time to turn up the heat, take risks, and refuse to settle for less. Itās an opportunity that wonāt last forever
‘We Want to See Our Families’
The United Electrical Workers (UE) published a new pamphlet, Them and Us Unionism, which argues that the labor movement needs to return to the class-struggle unionism that animated the founding of the industrial unions in the 1930s
Workers across the country rose to the occasion, making 2019 one of the most exciting years for the labor movement in recent memory
At a sprawling locomotive manufacturing complex a mile long and a mile wide in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1,700 workers walked off the job…
The 115 paradeucators in this small coastal city, just across the water from Canada, assist with everything from reading lessons to recess
As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants, itās urgent for worker centers and unions to organize to defend immigrant members.…
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