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,…
Jeff Schuhrke
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…
On August 12, a Trader Joe’s store in Downtown Minneapolis became only the second in the nation to unionize after winning an election,…
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…
After waiting over two years to secure a new union contract, and still reeling from the impacts of Wall Street-ordered cost-cutting measures, 115,000 beleaguered workers…
“It’s definitely been a really great experience of building solidarity and feeling empowered in this fight.”
