Michigan autoworkers are on strike. Here’s what you need to know.
Workers are demanding better wages, better benefits, and protections in an industry shifting toward electric vehicle production.
By Matt Cohen - September 20, 2023Workers are demanding better wages, better benefits, and protections in an industry shifting toward electric vehicle production.
By Matt Cohen - September 20, 2023The United Auto Workers union and major automakers couldn't reach a deal over demands for better wages and benefits, prompting workers to walk off the job.
By Associated Press - September 15, 2023The task force’s formation comes at a time when Republican politicians are rolling back child labor laws across the country.
By Matt Cohen - July 27, 2023A Florida-based right-wing lobbying group with ties to the Koch network, Leonard Leo, and the Uihleins is behind the GOP’s latest efforts to change child labor laws.
By Matt Cohen - June 27, 2023Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz was called to testify before a Senate committee about the company’s efforts to undermine unionization efforts.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2023Republicans in Congress have already filed bills to undermine labor rights, eliminate the agency that oversees workplace safety, and roll back wage protections.
By Josh Israel - March 24, 2023Raising wages has already proven to be widely supported and reasonable around the country — and not just in major cities or liberal-heavy states.
By TAI Contributor - October 28, 2022‘These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,’ said President Joe Biden.
By Associated Press - September 15, 2022The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has once again ruled against Elon Musk, this time overturning a Trump-era ruling that allowed Walmart to ban union clothing.
By Associated Press - September 05, 2022Unemployment rates have held steadily for months at the lowest marks since before the pandemic.
By Associated Press - July 30, 2022‘People see the labor movement broadly as a place to change the balance of power.’
By Associated Press - June 19, 2022‘I would hope that the corporation making record profits would recognize that the workers doing the work are the ones generating the revenue,’ said a worker at a GM facility in Bedford, Indiana.
By Associated Press - May 30, 2022‘You’ve got a lot of first- and second-generation immigrant folks that are kind of left high and dry by these non-daily room cleaning requirements,’ said Hawaii Democratic state Rep. Sonny Ganaden.
By Associated Press - May 29, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022This is what Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) calls ‘teamwork.’
By Josh Israel - February 08, 2022The U.S. economy is expected to grow by nearly 8% between 2020 and 2022 — ‘a direct effect’ of the American Rescue Plan, according to a new report.
By Nick Vachon - December 14, 2021Despite Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo’s claims, experts say there are several complicated reasons people may be opting out of the workforce.
By Oliver Willis - November 05, 2021Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) criticized the late AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka in a statement apparently intended to offer condolences on the day he died.
By Emily Singer - August 06, 2021Lawmakers say it’s time to end the racist exclusion of farmworkers from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Amy Lieu - May 13, 2021The agency’s bargaining power will be restored as anti-union, Trump-era regulations are replaced with more worker-friendly, pre-Trump contract terms.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021Amazon has a history of crushing unionizing efforts at its warehouses and its Whole Foods grocery stores.
By Associated Press - March 29, 2021‘It’s not enough to just say, well, we’re committed to this. We want to get it done.’
By Donna Provencher - March 22, 2021The White House says it strongly supports the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
By Donna Provencher - March 09, 2021‘Farmworkers can’t wait any longer.’
By Amy Lieu - March 04, 2021‘I think they just kind of feel like there is no end in sight,’ said the executive vice president of one local union protecting grocery store workers.
By Donna Provencher - February 26, 2021So much for being the ‘workers party.’
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2021Julie Su has fought to protect low-wage workers for 17 years, freeing enslaved Thai workers in 1995.
By Amy Lieu - February 11, 2021One of the measures would lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty.
By Amy Lieu - February 09, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his Republican caucus have opposed workers’ again and again.
By Josh Israel - February 09, 2021Congressional Republicans say increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 will cost millions of jobs. Experts say that’s not quite true.
By Amy Lieu - January 26, 2021