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Home Depot Cleaners Strike on Inauguration Day to Highlight Fight for Living Wages
Underpaid Home Depot cleaners struck on Inauguration Day to show that workers can take back power when they unite.
Labor Organizing in 2017: Looking Beyond Trump’s Lies on Jobs
Manufacturing became a source of good jobs only after angry working people united to fight the bosses and politicians.
At the Birthplace of Auto Workers’ Sit-Down Strikes, Locked Out for Eight Months and Counting
Workers have twice voted no on Honeywell's proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions and curtail overtime pay.
Breaking the Chains: Can Labor Unions Organize Retail Workers?
Retail is the nation's largest employer. But in recent decades, retail unionism has taken a steep fall.
Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky
The effort in Kentucky follows a playbook utilized by Team Koch in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia.
Labor Opponents Already Have the Next “Friedrichs” SCOTUS Case Ready to Go Under Trump
The Supreme Court gave unions an unexpected victory last year, but that win may be short-lived.
A Ph.D. in Organizing
Graduate students at private universities are organizing to join the ranks of the unionized.
California Hotel Workers Defeat Boss Tactics to Win Union
A week after Trump's win, hotel workers at Le Merigot Hotel voted 27 to 15 to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 11.
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Five Ways to Defend Immigrant Workers
Unions and workers centers are gearing up for a massive fight to defend immigrant members.
Labor Law Faces Dire New Threats From Supreme Court Under Trump
The legitimacy of the courts themselves is at stake in union-busting, right-to-work cases, such as Janus v. AFSCME.