Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
From today’s New York Times: More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of…
I got COVID-19 working at Ralphs. We need a voice in workplace safety
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After spending seven weeks isolated in my bedroom sick with COVID-19, I stood in front of the Ralphs grocery store where I work, bracing to…
Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize in a Big Step for Tech Workers
From today’s New York Times: Employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted on Tuesday to unionize, the first well-known technology company to take the step toward being represented by organized…
Congress passes bill to ease bids by workers to form unions
From today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune: In a move that supporters said would help working families, the Democratic-controlled House has approved a bill that would make it easier for workers to…
Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The last two years have witnessed a wave of walkouts, petitions and other workplace actions at video game and tech companies. But despite this swell…
After 30 days on strike, GM-UAW talks suddenly face a deadline
From today’s Detroit Free Press: The clock is ticking for General Motors executives to reach a proposed tentative agreement with the UAW, people close to the talks said Tuesday. The…
State of the Unions: What happened to America’s labor movement?
From today’s New Yorker Magazine: Do you have rights at work? Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought you did. In 1936, while trying to haul America’s economy out of the bog that…
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Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
From today’s New York Times: The United States is the only advanced industrial nation that doesn’t have national laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave. It is also the only advanced economy…
Trump won key union workers in 2016. Will Scalia as labor secretary change that for 2020?
From PBS Newshour Online: To critics, the nomination of a labor secretary who built his career fighting unions underscores a President Donald Trump’s attacks against organized labor. But for Trump,…
Can Courts Strike Down Right-to-Work?
From The American Prospect: Last week, in a move that’s as likely to baffle union activists as it is to encourage them, a West Virginia judge struck down key portions…