Labor Movement

Biden walking the picket line while Trump addresses a nonunion auto plant perfectly illustrates their parties’ distinct approaches to labor issues.

From Hollywood to Detroit, unions are telling a story that Americans need to hear.

UAW members are on strike today because four years ago a small group of activists founded a reform caucus.

Starbucks workers built a movement capable of taking on a billion dollar corporation. Here’s how.

Republican presidential hopefuls such as Tim Scott and Nikki Haley have been outspoken in their hostility toward unions.

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

In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."

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.

Unifying around the class war is an enormous opportunity for the Democratic Party

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.

After filing for an election in August, the historic vote sends a message to Marvel and other studios; labor organization is coming.

The complaint against an Ohio spa follows General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s memo seeking these kinds of cases.

Jason Vazquez on the NLRB's recent decisions aimed at constraining employers from interfering with the bargaining process.

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.

As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue, cross-industry supporters from hotel workers to the Teamsters are joining the picket lines.

Read about Ford UAW Contract Offer Includes Pay Increases, Tiers Eliminated

In a fight over the future of work, the labor committee chair recognizes that autoworkers need a fair share of burgeoning profits.

Landlords are taking all our wage gains. It doesn't have to be this way.

The regulatory climate for unions is good. Will they do anything with it?

The National Labor Relations Board just made it a whole lot harder to union-bust.

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.

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...

Democratic lawmakers have introduced a proposal that would allow workers who walk off the job to receive benefits.

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.

Unite Here Local 11 is asking that major conventions stay away from the city amid a massive labor dispute.

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.

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.

Exploited contractors who push wheelchairs and clean cabins are making themselves seen and heard.

The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.

"We can't simply sit back and assume this is normal or necessary or inevitable," says the former U.S. Labor Secretary.

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.

Early twentieth-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.

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.

The unions have accepted a pay deal, but industrial action could return if the problems in the sector don’t improve.

More than 70% of a proposed bargaining unit were told in July that they will lose their jobs, say organizers.

Unions don't organize enough people. Their structure is the problem.

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.