Whole Foods has always been one of the most anti-union companies in the country, ever since its founding. It is now in the Bezos orbit. That hasn't helped. It is now using the fact of Trump's likely illegal firing of a Democratic appointee on the...
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If you are a blue state and you don't embrace unions, you are a short-sighted idiot. No one is going to do more to entrench Democratic power than the labor.
On February 3, 1908, The Supreme Court decided the case of Loewe v. Lawlor. In it, it declared that unions violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by calling for a secondary.
On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. This narrow but important bill overturned Sam Alito's "logic" in deciding that women couldn't sue for pay discrimination unless they could prove decisions were made about six months before they filed an Equal...
On January 25, 1960 Mitsui Miike coal mine lockout in Japan began, the single biggest labor dispute in the history of Japan. This was also a core battle to see.
On January 23, 1922, the United Textile Workers led between 70,000 and 85,000 workers out on strike, protesting the continued exploitative reality of work in the apparel factories. This was.
On January 22, 1905, the first Russian Revolution began when the military fired on striking workers in St. Petersburg. The revolution, such as it even was, failed, as most revolutions do, but it laid the groundwork for the conditions in 1917 being right for a...
On January 14, 1977, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union lost a union election in Los Angeles after the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the workplace, deporting many of the.
Few know more about the internal politics of the American labor movement than Harold Meyerson and he is skeptical that it matters much that SEIU has returned to the AFL-CIO,.
Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to be SEIU leader Andy Stern's project to stroke his own ego and nothing else. Completely...
I know someone in passing who worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center for quite some time. Their verdict is that the SPLC is an incredibly toxic workplace, filled with.
Good news for the economy and for the longshoremen: Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts reached a tentative labor agreement with employers on Wednesday, averting a strike that could.