When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent…
Steven Greenhouse
fter years of struggle, America’s labor unions enjoy greater public approval than at any time in more than 50 years. Yet even as the…
Heather Goodall, a 50-year-old Amazon worker, began pushing for a union at her Amazon warehouse just outside Albany, New York, largely because…
The AFL-CIO is facing growing pressure to undertake a bolder effort to help today’s burst of unionizing expand far faster
Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?
Labor strategists hope wins will turn into a larger trend but acknowledge it won’t be easy as corporations fight fiercely against unionization
Journalists are responding to consolidation and ongoing revenue challenges by joining the unionization wave
Mail-in ballots for the hotly contested battle to unionize 5,800 workers are due on Monday. Some experts are predicting a victory while others are unsure
Workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are pushing for a union – and experts say if they triumph, it could pave the way to organizing fulfillment centers in other states
We may look back on this calamitous year as a pivotal moment when unions regained support as being critically important to building a fairer economy and society