unions
Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city
October 25, 2021October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...
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Worker power sweeps the country during #Striketober
October 25, 2021Over 100,000 workers have voted to authorize strikes, while millions more are simply quitting—fueling what’s being called “the silent general strike.”
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Unions cheer resurrection of Michigan’s prevailing wage law protecting construction worker pay
October 22, 2021“There’s no reason a contractor on a public project should find a competitive edge on the backs of workers, it’s just simply not right,” said Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 333 Business Manager Price Dobernick.
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News Guild on verge of representing majority of workers in troubled industry
October 22, 2021The bad news, however, is the news industry is shrinking thanks to a combination of the pandemic, the internet robbing it of vital ad revenue, and rapacious hedge fund takeovers.
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Shuler: Biden’s Build Back Better agenda puts working women at center of U.S. recovery
October 21, 2021So says organized labor’s top-ranked working woman: AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler.
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