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Massachusetts Trader Joe’s Workers Celebrate Forming Company’s First-Ever Union
The vote is yet another win for workers who are defying the odds to unionize at national chains.
Outgoing Boris Johnson Government Passes Anti-Union Law Amid Looming Strike Wave
Since 1973, it has been illegal in the U.K. for employment agencies to farm out workers to break strikes -- until now.
Starbucks Union Starts Workers’ Fund After Firing of Over 50 Pro-Union Workers
Starbucks has reached “historic levels of union busting,” workers say.
Starbucks Workers Officially Reach 200 Union Election Victories
Starbucks Workers United reached the milestone after a Cleveland, Ohio, store won a campaign on Friday.
Lululemon Workers in DC Become the Latest to Join Retail Union Wave
If they’re successful, the workers could be the first of the company’s 315 locations to unionize.
Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements
Ongoing organizing in the labor movement could have enormous implications for curbing the climate crisis.
The Value of the Federal Minimum Wage Is at a 66-Year Low
Every day of inaction from Congress extends the longest period in history without a federal minimum wage raise.
House Staffers in 8 Offices File to Form First-Ever Congressional Unions
About 85 staffers are unionizing, including those of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar.
Despite Broken Promises From Politicians, Sex Workers Continue to Organize
Sex workers have been failed by electoral politics. Many are turning to harm reduction and mutual aid instead.
NLRB Is Understaffed and Underfunded at Critical Moment for Labor Movement
The National Labor Relations Board has not had an increase in funding since 2014.