unions
Union leader Shearon on shutdown: No private sector bosses as bad as Trump
February 6, 2019Shearon, whose union represents both public and private sector workers – including thousands of federal immigration judges and tens of thousands of Boeing aerospace workers – produced a pungent comparison between Trump’s lockout and lockouts launched...
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“Part of their soul was missing”: Scottish steelworkers lost more than jobs
February 5, 2019Statistics never capture the emotional narratives of deindustrialization.
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Trump-named Labor Board boosts ‘independent contractor’ dodge
January 30, 2019This is bad news for millions of workers, union and non-union.
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Sprint-T-Mobile merger an attack on people of color and the poor
January 30, 2019Imagine you’re a teenager in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, doing your homework on your phone…and then you can’t, because your mobile phone carrier pulled out.
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Union influence grew despite slight drop in membership in 2018
January 22, 2019“Here’s what the numbers alone won’t tell you: 2018 was one of the most substantial years for collective action in American history."
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