Democrats took a stab at the policy during last year’s legislative session and worked for months to find a compromise between ...
The National Labor Relations Board has mostly succeeded as a neutral arbiter in disputes, labor law experts say. But the NLRB ...
The labor movement in the United States used to be “very anti-immigration,” said Jacob Remes, a labor historian and a ...
When authoritarianism rears its head, the labor movement needs to be at the center of opposing it. And right now, unions need to be at the center of the burgeoning movement against Donald Trump’s ...
Today, the U.S. labor movement is a shadow of its former self. Union membership has declined dramatically since labor’s heyday in the 1950s, when roughly a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized.
This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable on worker power under Trump, co-published by The American Prospect. I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the ...
As Trump prepares to escalate attacks on unions and immigrant workers, the labor movement must build power to stop him.
As union membership declines and regulators turn against workers, maybe we need to start talking about some radical change to the way the labor movement works. More than 55,000 striking members of ...
Participants at the Minnesota Union Leadership Program chat with Working People on the ground as they refine their skills for the future of the labor movement. A sign at a May Day protest in St. Paul, ...
Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline. Starbucks union members ...