This might be a bit inside baseball for this crowd, but Mary Kay Henry stepping down as head of SEIU is a big deal, largely because it is so unusual.
Good stuff here: Labor groups and fast-food companies in California reached an agreement over the weekend that will pave the way for workers in the industry to receive a minimum.
Deep dives on the success or failure of individual labor unions does not a robust comment section make. But this New Labor Forum piece on the successes of SEIU 32BJ.
The conditions of elder care are an absolutely atrocity. That was true before COVID. Hell, that was true for decades before COVID. Workers often labor at multiple facilities--which materially contributed.
This is a month old now but as relevant as ever: Understaffed, underpaid, and under-protected long before COVID-19 struck, health care workers in the US have had a brutal and.
On September 27, 2005, several unions, led by the Service Employees International Union, left the AFL-CIO to start an alternative federation entitled Change to Win. The idea was to create.
Very few readers of LGM know who Hector Figueroa was. He was the head of SEIU 32BJ in New York, one of the most powerful locals of one of the.
Here's an interesting case with potential major implications: A janitors’ union in San Francisco has taken on a court battle with major implications for what workers can do to protest.
