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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.
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.
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.
Kaiser Mental Health Workers Win Big After Long Strike
Their new contract includes raises of 20 percent over four years and an additional $2,500 signing bonus.
Los Angeles Passes US’s Highest Minimum Wage as Labor Prepares for 2028 Olympics
Meanwhile, unions organize as over 100 hotel and catering contracts in the area expire in the run-up to the Olympics.
Want to Stop Trump’s Attacks on the NLRB? History Shows Strikes Are the Answer.
Workers’ legal rights are inherently precarious in a capitalist economy. Only periodic mass upheaval has renewed them.
NY’s Prison Guard Strike Has Roots in Decades of Racialized Deindustrialization
The guards’ demand for impunity is about the maintenance of violence at the core of the system, says Andrea R. Morrell.
New York Prison Guards Strike, Denouncing Limits on Solitary Confinement
Prisons are institutions of warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control, says an anthropologist.
2024 Saw Organized Labor Score Gains, But Challenges Loom on the Horizon
Workers’ demands for union democracy have fueled more fights, more wins, higher expectations and more new organizing.
Amazon Workers Speak Out Amid Unprecedented Holiday Season Strike
Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in US history.