NFL Response to Player’s Cardiac Arrest is a Labor Rights Issue
The issues Damar Hamlin’s near-death and ongoing recovery raise are very much not over.
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Worker Rights are Critical to the Future of Ukraine
As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, Ukrainian workers and their trade unions have become an undeniable force for solidarity and community support throughout the country. Since the onset of the conflict, union members from the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) have mobilized in …
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Employers are Using the “Labor Shortage” to Harm Workers
Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.
Iran’s Gender Justice Uprising Joined by Teachers, Unionists
As part of the nationwide protests in Iran, women union members are taking to the streets, saying: “we have nothing to lose but our lives.”
This Supreme Court also hates worker power
This week, the Supreme Court gutted abortion rights. This is a workers’ issue, in a country where many struggle to afford an abortion and lack the paid leave needed to take multiple days off work to travel out of state for abortion access as state bans go into effect. The Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz points out research …
Starbucks broke the law more than 200 times in effort to squash union organizing, labor board says
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Starbucks’ union-busting campaign very seriously. The board’s regional director in Buffalo issued a complaint late Friday accusing the company of 29 unfair labor practices involving 200 violations of the law. The complaint specifically names interim CEO Howard Schultz for dangling improved benefits if workers didn’t unionize, and calls on Schultz …
Comic Book Answers: Why Do Workers Need a New ‘Bill of Rights’?
A comic book developed by the North Carolina State AFL-CIO aims to answer the question of why we need a new “Bill of Rights” in this country to turn the tide of economic and societal forces back in favor of working people during the current pandemic and beyond. The ‘Bill of Rights’ We Need Now More Than …
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How Can We Rebuild Working-Class Politics? Let’s Go to “Strike School.”
Throughout September and October, thousands of activists and unionists from seventy countries participated in the international ?“Strike School” organizing training led by Jane McAlevey and sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Jacobin?’s Eric Blanc spoke with McAlevey about the key lessons of the course, the reasons why this tradition has been marginalized within organized labor, and the ways …
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This Crisis Makes Clear: We Need a Four-Day Work Week, Now
The pandemic inspired politicians and country leaders across the world to speak in favor of a reduced work week. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has brought it up, as has Sanna Marin, the Prime Minister of Finland. Germany’s largest trade union, a metalworkers’ union, is pushing the idea hard, with support from the country’s Federal Ministry of Labor and …
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How Unions Can Lay the Ground for the Next Upsurge
I started in the labor movement in the mid-90s, when the fall in union density from 23 percent of the workforce in 1980 to 15 percent in 1994 had created a crisis at the top. In response, the “New Voices” slate led by the Service Employees’ John Sweeney defeated heir apparent Thomas Donahue in the first contested …
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