The NewsGuild-Communications Writers of America (CWA) has emerged as arguably one of the most successful organizations to unionize newsrooms. Founded in the 1930s, the NewsGuild-CWA opted to leave the American Federation of Labor and join the Congress of Industrial Organizations in order to better reach non-editorial workers.
Read MoreAn employee for the progressive climate change organization Sunrise Movement has told Strikewave that they were fired for organizing a union and that they have filed an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board.
Read MoreThe workers at Tattersall Distilling are unionizing. My coworkers are unionizing. I’m unionizing. The rally was held on June 29th to show community support. I was ready to be active and present, maybe talk to some journalists, but never on a megaphone. In fact, I handed it off multiple times before I finally got the courage to speak. What I finally said was simple:
Read MoreWorkers at Cards Against Humanity, the multimillion dollar board game company, are unionizing. Employees presented management with a demand letter today, asking them to voluntarily recognize the union on the heels of a weeks-long public reckoning over instances of racism and harassment at the company. Workers are organizing with the Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United, a Chicago affiliate of the Service Employees International Union.
Read MoreOn the second day of what would eventually become the Minneapolis uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, Adam Birch, a bus driver, got a message over his intercom that Metro Transit, the public transportation authority of the Twin Cities, needed volunteers at the 3rd Precinct. When Birch heard the message, he knew exactly what the request meant.
Read MoreGraduate assistants at Brown University announced a tentative agreement with the university administration this morning, setting up the prospect of a groundbreaking moment: a collective bargaining agreement for graduate assistants in the Ivy League.
Read MoreNonprofit workers organizing — and even striking — is not new. But it's now on the rise.
Read MoreThe pressure for casinos to reopen is huge. But gaming workers and their union, UNITE HERE, are sending a clear message: businesses must prioritize the safety of their workers and their customers in any plan to reopen.
Read MoreCargill's mere presence in Hazleton, PA is a lesson in how neoliberalism enables corporations to extract maximum amounts of wealth from already-impoverished cities, while local officials mobilize nativism to get citizens to look the other way when immigrant workers are exploited.
Read MoreUnion members have been let down by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly in Virginia.
Read MoreCOVID-19 is a shock to the Pennsylvania system that has strained under years of budget cuts, especially the unemployment system. The state has one of the highest rates of unemployment claims in the country, surpassing larger states like New York and Texas and running second only to California, and public sector workers are feeling the pinch.
Read MoreSEIU Local 26’s recent strike wasn’t just to improve wages and benefits It highlighted that the company exploiting the environment is the same one exploiting workers.
Read MoreAs game developers bust their humps to prep game after game for market, someone still has to pack and ship the physical products out to customers. The industry’s warehouse workers, printers and manufacturing workers need a union, too. And now, they’re fighting to win one.
Read MoreDomestic workers in Mexico are some of the most exploited in the country. They’re organizing to make employers respect their labor rights.
Read MoreNFL negotiations over a successor to their ten year long collective bargaining agreement are drawing attention—and concerns about the potential for a work stoppage. Right now, ongoing bargaining between the National Football Association Players’ Association, or NFLPA—the AFL-CIO affiliated labor union representing NFL players—and the NFL hinges on a key question: whether to move from a 16 to a 17 game schedule.
Read MoreLast week, The Daily Beast published a report on “Protech Local 33”—a supposed union that claims to represent workers in California’s growing cannabis industry. According to The Daily Beast’s reporting, signs point toward Protech acting as a “company” or (in labor slang) “yellow” union: something banned under both international and national labor laws. But our investigation, conducted through extensive research through Department of Labor records, court records, IRS records, the Chicago Tribune newspaper archive, and interviews with Chicago labor activists, shows that Protech is much more than a company union—and connects back to a long, troubling history of corruption in some segments of organized labor, recently depicted in Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, as the New Hampshire primary was called for Bernie Sanders, the Culinary Union upped the pressure in their quiet war on the Democratic frontrunner.
Culinary 226—a Nevada political powerhouse—has sent signals they may not endorse in the Nevada caucuses, but that hasn’t stopped the local from making their preferences known. The flashpoint: healthcare and union concerns over the impact of Medicare for All proposals on their massive healthcare trust, Culinary Health.
Read MoreStrike actions exploded in 2018 driven by West Virginia educators—teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, and other support staff—who walked out in a dramatic statewide strike. They were followed by educators in Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, and other states as teachers and support staff fed up with years of cuts and demands to do more with less finally drew a line in the sand. With a sense of continued momentum—2019 began with the Los Angeles teachers’ strike, and closed with the first major auto sector strike in over a decade and a long Chicago education strike—unionists feel that the strike wave is continuing. But is it? We turned to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, released yesterday, to answer that important question: was 2018 a fluke?
Read MoreLibrarians have often been at the forefront of the fight for intellectual freedom and patron privacy, but despite this historic activism, there has been little organizing by librarians to oppose the massive budget cuts to public libraries in recent years.
Read MoreThe following letter was sent by the author, Adam Pelletier, President of AFGE Local 3343 in Troy, New York, to management in the Social Security Administration. It has been lightly edited and abridged for publication.
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