Labor Movement
- Most Voters Support UAW and Hollywood Strikes, New Poll Showstruthout.org Most Voters Support UAW and Hollywood Strikes, New Poll Shows
Republican presidential hopefuls such as Tim Scott and Nikki Haley have been outspoken in their hostility toward unions.
- Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Muskwww.theguardian.com Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
- Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strikewww.vice.com Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."
- Steven Rattner's Not Afraid Of Work From Home, He's Afraid Of Worker Powertherevolvingdoorproject.org Steven Rattner's Not Afraid Of Work From Home, He's Afraid Of Worker Power | Revolving Door Project
American workers have just started getting the barest minimum of a few lucky breaks. But that is terrifying to Rattner and his fellow moguls, so they need some sort of rational argument for why these bare scraps of power are actually bad for everyone.
- Whose Fault Is It?www.hamiltonnolan.com Whose Fault Is It?
Unifying around the class war is an enormous opportunity for the Democratic Party
- Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.jacobin.com Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That.
A key conflict in the United Auto Workers strike, which could begin at midnight tonight, is over the electric vehicle industry. The vast majority of EV plants are low-wage and non-union despite being publicly subsidized — and the UAW is trying to fix that.
- Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionizegizmodo.com Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize
After filing for an election in August, the historic vote sends a message to Marvel and other studios; labor organization is coming.
- NLRB Complaint Calls a Noncompete Agreement an Unfair Labor Practiceprospect.org NLRB Complaint Calls a Noncompete Agreement an Unfair Labor Practice
The complaint against an Ohio spa follows General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s memo seeking these kinds of cases.
- New Board Decisions Seek to Facilitate Collective Bargainingonlabor.org New Board Decisions Seek to Facilitate Collective Bargaining ✦ OnLabor
Jason Vazquez on the NLRB's recent decisions aimed at constraining employers from interfering with the bargaining process.
- The Disco Elysium Saga Shows Why Creative Workers Need to Band Togetherjacobin.com The Disco Elysium Saga Shows Why Creative Workers Need to Band Together
A strange and beautiful game with a socialist foundation, Disco Elysium’s success seemed like a miracle. When company shareholders eventually fired its creators and stole their work, that was more familiar — and proved why creative workers need unions too.
- Summer of Strikes, Summer of Solidarity: LA workers lean on each othertherealnews.com Summer of Strikes, Summer of Solidarity: LA workers lean on each other
As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue, cross-industry supporters from hotel workers to the Teamsters are joining the picket lines.
- Ford UAW Contract Offer Includes Pay Increases, Tiers Eliminatedangrybearblog.com Ford UAW Contract Offer Includes Pay Increases, Tiers Eliminated - Angry Bear
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- The UAW Is Prepared to Strike, and Bernie Sanders Has Their Backwww.thenation.com The UAW Is Prepared to Strike, and Bernie Sanders Has Their Back
In a fight over the future of work, the labor committee chair recognizes that autoworkers need a fair share of burgeoning profits.
- Housing Is a Labor Issuewww.hamiltonnolan.com Housing Is a Labor Issue
Landlords are taking all our wage gains. It doesn't have to be this way.
- It's Up to Unions to Make the NLRB Matterinthesetimes.com It's Up to Unions to Make the NLRB Matter
The regulatory climate for unions is good. Will they do anything with it?
- Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Saysnewrepublic.com Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says
The National Labor Relations Board just made it a whole lot harder to union-bust.
- The Hollywood Studios Still Aren’t Serious About Ending the Writers’ Strikejacobin.com The Hollywood Studios Still Aren’t Serious About Ending the Writers’ Strike
Even after more than one hundred days of a nationwide strike of Hollywood writers, studio heads are monumentally out of touch with the most basic demands that those writers are unified around winning.
- Board Issues Decision Announcing New Framework for Union Representation Proceedingswww.nlrb.gov Board Issues Decision Announcing New Framework for Union Representation Proceedings
Today, the Board issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC announcing a new framework for determining when employers are required to bargain with unions without a representation election. The new framework will both effectuate employees’ right to bargain through representa...
- California Workers on Strike Could Get Unemployment Pay Under New Billwww.nytimes.com California Workers on Strike Could Get Unemployment Pay Under New Bill
Democratic lawmakers have introduced a proposal that would allow workers who walk off the job to receive benefits.
- Trader Joe’s Workers Are Carrying Out an Experiment in Independent Unionismjacobin.com Trader Joe’s Workers Are Carrying Out an Experiment in Independent Unionism
Independent unions are a real rarity in the US labor movement. But at multiple stores across the country, Trader Joe’s workers are organizing outside of established unions.
- A Massive Hotel Strike Has Led To A Boycott Of Los Angeleswww.huffpost.com A Massive Hotel Strike Has Led To A Boycott Of Los Angeles
Unite Here Local 11 is asking that major conventions stay away from the city amid a massive labor dispute.
- Pro-Union Shift Expected With Labor Board Member’s Pending Exitnews.bloomberglaw.com Pro-Union Shift Expected With Labor Board Member’s Pending Exit
The National Labor Relations Board is poised to release a number of decisions in the next two weeks with the potential to significantly alter the nation’s labor doctrine in favor of unions, as Democratic board member Gywnne Wilcox’s term draws to a close later this month.
- The tough-talking new president of the UAW leading autoworkers to the brink of a strikewww.washingtonpost.com The tough-talking union leader guiding autoworkers to the brink of a strike
Shawn Fain, the new president of the United Auto Workers, rails against corporate greed and refuses to shake hands with CEOs
- In UAW’s Negotiations With the Big Three Automakers, Ending Tiers Is a Central Demandjacobin.com In UAW’s Negotiations With the Big Three Automakers, Ending Tiers Is a Central Demand
In its negotiations with the Big Three Automakers, the United Auto Workers wants to eliminate the lower-tier status hurting many electric vehicle workers. A rank-and-file autoworker explains why the fight is central to a just green transition.
- Labor summer comes to the airportnymag.com Labor Summer Comes To The Airport
Exploited contractors who push wheelchairs and clean cabins are making themselves seen and heard.
- Econ Commentators Join TSMC to Declare U.S. Workers’ Premature Defeatprospect.org Econ Commentators Join TSMC to Declare U.S. Workers’ Premature Defeat
The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.
- Robert Reich on the Hollywood Strikes, Tech “Leviathans” and a Second Gilded Agewww.hollywoodreporter.com Robert Reich on the Hollywood Strikes, Tech “Leviathans” and a Second Gilded Age
"We can't simply sit back and assume this is normal or necessary or inevitable," says the former U.S. Labor Secretary.
- Hotel Workers Have Been Carrying Out Rolling Strikes Across Southern Californiajacobin.com Hotel Workers Have Been Carrying Out Rolling Strikes Across Southern California
Since their contract expired on June 30, hotel workers across the Los Angeles area have launched a wave of rolling strikes against 62 hotels. They are demanding raises to keep up with LA’s skyrocketing cost of living — especially rents.
- Today’s Hollywood Strikes Are Fights for Workplace Democracyjacobin.com Today’s Hollywood Strikes Are Fights for Workplace Democracy
Early 20th-century unions rejected the idea that bosses should be the dictators of the workplace. Today, the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and other major unions have rediscovered the strike’s power to secure workers’ control over their own lives.
- The New UAW Is Ready to Fight the Big 3 Automakersjacobin.com The New UAW Is Ready to Fight the Big 3 Automakers
This week, the UAW presented proposals to automakers in contract negotiations covering some 150,000 workers. Autoworkers want big raises, an end to tiers, and the right to strike over plant closures — and conditions appear favorable for them to win.
- Why the teacher strikes might not be overwww.newstatesman.com Why the teacher strikes might not be over
The unions have accepted a pay deal, but industrial action could return if the problems in the sector don’t improve.
- ‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizingfortune.com ‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing
More than 70% of a proposed bargaining unit were told in July that they will lose their jobs, say organizers.
- Strikes spiked in July, as workers seek higher wages to keep up with inflationwww.washingtonpost.com Strikes spiked in July, as workers seek higher wages to keep up with inflation
The labor unrest erupting in Hollywood is far from the only example of workers banding together to demand more from their employers this summer.
- A New Idea for New Union Organizinginthesetimes.com A New Idea for New Union Organizing
Unions don't organize enough people. Their structure is the problem.
- A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?www.thenation.com A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
The hotel workers’ strike in Los Angeles will force members of the American Political Science Association—and Taylor Swift fans—to decide whether or not to cross union picket lines.
- The Case for More Strikeswww.thenation.com The Case for More Strikes
Unions nationwide must take advantage of their leverage and use the strike weapon more often.
- Lawyers form union at employment law firm Outten & Goldenwww.reuters.com Lawyers form union at employment law firm Outten & Golden
Outten & Golden, a 65-lawyer U.S.-based law firm that represents plaintiffs in labor and employment litigation, said it has voluntarily recognized a union formed by its associate attorneys.
- The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workerswww.thenation.com The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers
But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.
- WGA Picket in New York Doubles as Unionization Effort for Animation Writers: “We Are Going to Get This God***n Industry Organized”www.hollywoodreporter.com WGA Picket in New York Doubles as Unionization Effort for Animation Writers: “We Are Going to Get This God***n Industry Organized”
The Tuesday event saw upwards of 100 WGA and SAG-AFTRA members, non-union writers and other supporters marching in the rain as they showed solidarity with the medium's east coast writers.