May 10, 2024 News & Commentary McDonald's affiliated-group opposes New York bill enhancing worker protections; University of Pennsylvania graduate students vote to unionize; Finland limits strike durations.
November 10, 2023 News & Commentary President Biden addresses autoworkers; Kaiser Permanente workers ratify contract; California farmworkers unionize; NYC cleaners prepare for strike; and Cornell graduate students unionize.
March 17, 2023 News & Commentary Texas committee considers sweeping legislation limiting municipal power; University of Chicago graduate students unionize; Tennessee Nissan technicians reject a unionizing effort; and protestors in France take to the streets after President Macron activates nuclear option to raise retirement age.
February 3, 2023 News & Commentary New Jersey advances a temp worker rights bill; Johns Hopkins doctoral students join a wave of unionized graduate students; canvassers systematically misrepresented a petition for a veto referendum on the California fast food workers bill; and strikes continue in the UK
January 10, 2023 News & Commentary NYC Nurses continue their 7,000-strong strike but may already be close to a deal, NY voters support increasing the minimum wage, and graduate students at Yale University vote for a union after decades of organizing.
December 1, 2022 News & Commentary House passes bill to impose rail labor contract; federal workers lose appeal on government-shutdown pay; NLRB says Starbucks must bargain in Seattle; Yale graduate student workers vote on unionization
Postdoc Unions Empower Workers in UC Strike and Beyond As a major UC grad-student strike gets underway, what's the state of unionization for postdocs?
November 14, 2022 News & Commentary Huge UC grad-student strike begins; Labor Department uncovers disturbing child-labor violations; Twitter layoffs continue
October 31, 2022 News & Commentary A deep dive on the UAW’s first presidential election, another update on the Starbucks labor movement, and some history — on graduate-student labor unions and labor cats.
October 26, 2022 News & Commentary Illinois to vote on a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing collective bargaining; Yale graduate students file for a union election; Striketober continues for Starbucks while negotiations stall and the company files unfair labor practice charges.