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18 States Now Have Laws Blocking Cities From Enacting Paid Leave Standards
Nearly 73 million workers fall under such laws, according to a new report.
Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide
As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
GOP Missouri Governor Repeals Paid Sick Leave Measure Voters Passed in Landslide
Advocates called the move, which also restricts minimum wage increases, “a slap in the face to workers.”
Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades
“I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.
US’s Largest Labor Union Votes to Cut All Ties to the Anti-Defamation League
The ADL leveraged spurious antisemitism claims to demand that schools bring it in to set policy and provide programming.
New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry
Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.
Taft-Hartley Act Still Undercutting Labor 78 Years Later
Taft-Hartley marked the beginning of a long-term strategy to isolate, weaken, and demobilize organized labor in the US.
After ICE Targeted a Labor Leader, Unions Must Speak Up for Immigrant Workers
Across the country, immigrant workers are being met with surveillance, police repression, and political scapegoating.
European Dockworkers Are Refusing to Load Weapons for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The labor actions are built on a decades-long tradition of internationalism, anti-militarism, and anti-imperialism.
Labor Leader Released on Bond After Being Swept Up in ICE’s Violent Raid of LA
SEIU California President David Huerta was arrested while protesting the Trump administration’s militarized raid of LA.