September 26th 2021
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As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Louisiana today, on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm’s trajectory includes New Orleans in its path and will present a test of the 350 miles of infrastructural...
In the aftermath of the unexpected death of Richard Trumka on Thursday, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., as noted by the New York Times earlier today, faces a moment of decision – a “crossroads,” in the words of the Times. Despite Trumka’s impassioned and experienced leadership,...
The 2020 Summer Olympics officially kicked off in Tokyo on Friday amidst rising fears stemming from a surge in coronavirus infections in Tokyo and worldwide. More than a hundred cases have already been linked to the Games – including three athletes, one of whom is...
The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve Julie Su as the United States Deputy Labor Secretary, the second highest ranking position in the Department of Labor. Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was previously serving as the Labor Secretary for the state of...
A Reuters report released over the weekend, which analyzed two decades of retail wages in the United States, found that union workers get paid more on average than their nonunion counterparts – and that the gap between the compensation of union and nonunion workers...
As restaurants across the country reportedly struggle to fill many of the grueling positions in their sweltering kitchens, conservative lawmakers have descended on the erroneous consensus that the pandemic-era enhanced unemployment insurance payments are the reason...
On Saturday, nearly 3,000 Volvo workers went on strike in Dublin, Virginia, one of the largest of 2021 so far. The Volvo plant in Dublin is one of the largest Volvo facilities in the world, with more than 3,300 workers, 2,900 of whom belong to UAW. The strike is in...
On Saturday, the Senate voted 50-49 to pass Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, after a marathon debate that lasted for more than 24 consecutive hours. The package was passed through the budget reconciliation process,...
In Bessemer, Alabama, the Amazon unionization campaign continued apace this weekend – and so did Amazon’s efforts to thwart union organizers and its own workers. Amazon has adopted increasingly extreme measures to ward off the impending unionization, including...
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s attempt to delay a unionization vote in its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. Amazon, in a formal request issued last month, asked the Board to postpone the vote to further consider the company’s proposal...
According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, the rate of unionization in the United States increased for the first time in more than 10 years in 2020, to 10.8% from 10.3%, even as the total number of unionized workers declined by more...