As the first-ever simultaneous strike at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis continues, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is being cheered on…
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Speaking outside Amazon Studios in Culver City, California last week to a crowd of striking actors, writers and Amazon delivery drivers, Teamsters General…
In what appears to be a swift reprisal, more than 30 employees at a Tesla gigafactory in Buffalo, New York were fired on Wednesday — just one day after the…
While the high-stakes labor dispute on U.S. freight railroads has receded from headlines since President Joe Biden and Congress imposed a new contract last month,…
In the latest escalation of their growing union drive, Starbucks workers across the country are staging a three-day strike beginning today — making it the…
In Tuesday’s midterm elections, a majority of Illinois voters backed the Workers Rights Amendment which will enshrine the ability to organize. A…
As companies like Starbucks and Amazon continue their efforts to stop employees from unionizing, voters in Illinois passed a historic measure to safeguard…
Review of Labor’s Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966, by Andrew J. Hazelton (University of Illinois Press, 2022) Last…
Managers at Intelligentsia Coffee closed their five Chicago stores two hours early July 5 to call its cafe workers to a mandatory meeting. A month earlier,…
US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts…