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In Tuesday’s midterm elections, a majority of Illinois voters backed the Workers Rights Amendment which will enshrine the ability to organize. A…
Jeff Schuhrke
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…
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.”
Wednesday morning, several dozen Amazon workers at two separate Chicago-area delivery stations staged a walkout to demand raises and safer working conditions
Gathered outside Chicago’s flagship El Milagro taqueria, workers remembered those who died from Covid-19—and celebrated a victory that granted them Sundays off
The recent wave of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements