January 28th 2022
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A majority of teachers in Northbrook School District 28 in Illinois have declared their intent to form a union. District 28 is one of the few public school districts in Illinois that is not unionized, as less than 10% of teachers in the state are not members of the...
On September 29, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum outlining her position that student-athletes, or “Players at Academic Institutions,” are employees under the NLRA. “My intent in issuing this memo,” Abruzzo wrote, “is to help educate the...
Workers and management at the New Yorker reached an agreement yesterday regarding the terms of their first collective bargaining agreement. Prior to coming to agreement on terms, the union threatened to strike. The labor effort is fairly recent; only three years...
As many readers experienced, OnLabor's website was down for several hours yesterday, a problem caused by a flood of new access requests that overwhelmed the page. Much as we would like to think that the sudden spike in OnLabor traffic was legitimate, the more...
Happy Labor Day! Rebecca Burns writes in Truthout about why workers should celebrate this Labor Day. Burns points to the continued success of teachers strikes; successful private-sector strikes in a diverse range of industries; increased labor support for a Green...
AT&T workers -- represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) -- rallied in Atlanta for a fair contract on Saturday. Around 20,000 AT&T employees in nine Southeastern states are covered by the same contract, which expired over the weekend. In...
Following a ten-month grassroots campaign led by the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance (PDWA) and supported by over forty unions and community organizations, the Philadelphia City Council introduced a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights last Thursday. If passed,...
The Stop & Shop strike continues, with over 31,000 workers off the job to protest attempted cuts to their pay and benefits. Workers were visited yesterday by former Vice President Joe Biden, who offered support. “I know you're used to hearing political...
The trans-continental Marriott strike continues without flagging. Seven thousand workers in Boston, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, and throughout Hawaii are disrupting operations at dozens of Marriott-owned hotels. The SF Examiner describes the...
1800 workers in New York City are in their eighth month striking against Charter Communications. After Charter bought Time Warner Cable in May 2016, Charter sought to substitute its standard contract for the collective bargaining agreement between Time Warner and...
The many recent instances of police killing civilians have sparked calls to fire and prosecute the officers involved, and outrage at the police unions’ defense of accused officers and resistance to summary discipline. People rightly wonder why the union conceives...