Under new leadership, the UAW is waging an aggressive campaign to win a new contract at the Big Three automakers. For the…
(Image: Jim West, jimwestphoto.com) Some 323,000 US workers have struck so far this year. Another 340,000 were in gear to strike, until their nationwide…
Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent the past year talking to his coworkers about how UPS Teamsters were getting organized to…
Brandi Diaz was at a customer’s door in Palmdale, California, delivering stuff for Amazon, when the customer asked her, “What’s the difference…
Six thousand Machinists at a key Boeing supplier, Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, went on strike June 24 after voting down the…
After a bruising three-year fight, workers at school bus manufacturer Blue Bird in Fort Valley, Georgia, voted May 12 to join United…
Electric vehicle manufacturing in the US is overwhelming nonunion, but 1,400 workers for an electric bus manufacturer in Georgia have just unionized.…
Gloria Ortiz’s parents spotted a sign one day looming over the fields of strawberries in California’s Central Coast. It was announcing $11-an-hour wages for…
The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an…
Lodi, an Italian-style fine dining cafe in Rockefeller Center, has what the New York Times calls “a captive audience” given its central location in…
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