A significant portion of the abundance movement views unions as a barrier that needs to be overcome in the name of efficiency. The post-Reconstruction United States has never seen durable progressive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain wears a shirt reading ‘Trump is a Scab’ at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, ...

For the past 90 years, the ability of private-sector employees to form unions, collectively bargain, and engage in union-protected activities has fallen under the purview of the National Labor ...

In July, the AFL-CIO gathered to celebrate its 50th birthday, only to see its two biggest unions go their own way. The organization was once 56 unions continues, minus 25 percent of its members and a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On March 25, 115 years ago, my Great Aunt Fannie died in the workplace-altering Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Fannie Lansner — the 21-year-old sister of my ...

This story was co-published with In These Times on Nov. 22, 2024. For all his promises to deliver for US workers, Trump’s political agenda poses an existential threat to organized labor. Project ...

For more than 50 years, Staughton Lynd has been a leading radical in the United States. He was an engaged supporter of the Black Liberation Movement in the Deep South in the early 1960s, most notably ...

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board announced that the number of union petitions the agency received rose 27% in the past year, and that the figure has doubled since 2021. It is proof that a ...

The Association for Union Democracy’s conference on combating corruption in labor unions was proven especially timely with the arrest of a major labor figure last week. Even as reformers, lawyers and ...