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Graduate Student Workers Organize Against Sexual Harassment on Campus
Graduate student workers have turned to unions to combat endemic conditions of sexual harassment.
Collective Action Is Key to Keeping Labor Strong
With union membership at an all-time low, the labor movement must get creative.
We Are Nurses and We Won’t Back Down
Some 1,800 nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington took to the picket lines for two days.
Vermont Nurses on Strike Demanding Hospital Put Patients Over Profits
At the center of the strike are issues related to safe staffing, competitive pay and a $15 minimum wage.
Is It Time for Parents to Unionize?
Few engage as deeply with the economic pressures today’s parents must navigate.
Workers at Whittier Street Health Center in Boston Win the Union
Despite management’s all-out attempt to intimidate employees, workers were successful in organizing.
Planned Parenthood’s Union Busting Could Have a Chilling Effect for Workers Everywhere
Pitting labor rights against reproductive rights is not a winning strategy for movements.
Unions Have Been Down Before, History Shows How They Can Come Back
UAW’s success in building an interracial union in the 1930s offers much hope for movement-builders today.
Supreme Court’s “Janus” Decision Is an All-Out Attack on Working Americans
Wednesday's 5-4 decision gave a giant boost to the campaign to undermine labor for the benefit of the super-rich.
Supreme Court’s “Janus” Ruling Could Hurt Children
This case is the culmination of the conservative movement’s decades-long effort to strike at the heart of workers’ ability to organize.