The GM strike is now in its third week. Strike pay is about to kick in. This is a long, hard struggle. Among the many things that the UAW is fighting for is to end the awful system of two-tiered pay, implemented by the auto...
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Not that anyone cares anymore, but the United Auto Workers strike is entering its third week tomorrow. I was on NPR's Weekend Edition today to talk about the UAW and.
On September 27, 1875, striking textile workers in Fall River, Massachusetts engaged in a bread riot as the workers were forced to return to their job or face shipment to.
George, 35, protests with other commercial drivers with the app-based, ride-sharing company Uber against working conditions outside the company's office in Santa Monica, California June 24, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3VKJ9 Labor law makes the lives...
On September 23, 2002, California governor Gray Davis signed the California Family Rights Act, the first paid family leave law in American history. This relatively small but still significant increase.
I've wondered for some time whether Harvard and Brown's relative acceptance of graduate student unionization campaigns wasn't predicated on their confidence that the Trump NLRB would rule that graduate students.
The UAW's strike against General Motors continues with no end in sight. This has made me briefly relevant, so here are a few thoughts. First, something that has nothing to do with me. The great labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein tweeted this out: This is the...
These have not been great days for the United Auto Workers. The recent closing of several GM plants, including the iconic Lordstown plant, is basically the end of industrial unionism.
In 2016, I published Empire of Timber, a book demonstrating how timber workers used their unions throughout the 20th century to push their own shifting environmental agendas, pushing back very.
Tech has to be a frontier in 21st century unionization. The libertarian bro culture of Silicon Valley means that it isn't going to be easy, as these companies have no problem proudly announcing they will flout the law if they choose. But the bad working...
One of the huge problems in the American labor movement has long been the extreme difficulty of large-scaling organizing in the South. Despite the herculean efforts of some great organizers,.
While I suppose we could say that the labor movement has been at a crossroads for a long time, right now, it very much is at a crossroads. That's because.