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September 3, 2024
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

10,000 hotel workers go on strike; Harris hosts Labor Day rallies focused on wooing union members.

September 4, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

UNITE Here and SEIU-affiliated unions push for approval of the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act; Maryland community colleges form faculty unions; The United States and Canada celebrate Labor Day

A New Chapter for Worker Power Policy Innovation: Announcing CLJE:Lab

Sep 1, 2023 Benjamin Sachs, Sharon Block and Yoorie Chang

To celebrate Labor Day, an exciting announcement from the Center for Labor and a Just Economy -- introducing the CLJE:Lab.

May 1, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

A Massachusetts fire union protests 660+ days without a contract; the NLRB rules that a Tesla service center violated labor law by restricting employees’ communication regarding salary and working conditions; over 160 countries celebrate May Day with rallies and protests calling for better labor conditions

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

For those of us who support unions, we have an unfamiliar feeling this Labor Day. It’s a feeling of hope and celebration. This is unfamiliar territory because union organizing has been in a free fall for decades now. But we can smile this Labor Day because American workers have delivered a lot to celebrate and, […]

September 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Happy Labor Day! For more on the origins of this federal holiday celebrating workers, see Kevin’s weekend post, which provides a helpful backgrounder. There’s much reason for optimism this Labor Day. Union momentum and public support for unions are surging — a historic trend largely driven by young workers across the country. In short, Rani Molla […]

September 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Happy Labor Day Weekend! This weekend, millions of Americans will fire up the grill or head to the beach to celebrate Labor Day, though few seem to remember the origins—or purpose—of the federal holiday, which is designated to honor the achievements of organized labor in the United States. In 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a […]

September 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

Today is Labor Day in the United States. And, as on every Labor Day, it is worth pausing to note the oddity—and the irony—of the United States celebrating the holiday on the first Monday in September, rather than the first day of May. The notion of a holiday to celebrate labor came about in the […]

September 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

This weekend, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families will lose federal unemployment benefits entirely, and more than 2 million more will have their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week, as two key federal unemployment programs expire. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provided unemployment benefits to many workers not included under traditional unemployment […]

September 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Randon wrote yesterday about a graduate student worker strike at the University of Kansas and now another student worker strike has begun at another major public university that is holding in-person instruction during the pandemic, and the union is explicitly tying anti-police demands to its labor struggle. Today, graduate student workers at the University of […]

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