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The ACLU of Illinois Seeks a Playbook for Acceptable Progressive Union Busting

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

The staff union and management are locked in a battle over who can be included in the union. Aunion fight that is playing out in Illinois highlights how progressive organizations can use technical objections to the scope of a proposed union to effectively pursue union-busting while maintaining plausible deniability that they are doing so. This effort …

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Unions see big new worker interest amid coronavirus threats

Leave a Comment / unions / By max cyril

Coronavirus is exposing the inequities in the U.S. economy, posing incredible danger to the most vulnerable workers. Republicans and employers are eager to take advantage of this moment of high unemployment and risk, but workers are also ready to try to wring some added power out of the crisis. “In literally a day, grocery store workers have gone from ‘just a job,’ to having a job that’s incredibly …

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Maine Union Members Answer the Call on Path to Power

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Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1253 member Tina Riley never had any desire to get involved in politics until she was recruited to run for the Maine Legislature in 2015. She knew it would be a challenging race. The district was traditionally a union stronghold, but it had been trending conservative in recent years due to …

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Forget Elections—Labor Needs To Get Back to Its Roots

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With the midterms behind us, we have Nov. 4, 2020, to look forward to—labor’s next morning after. On Nov. 5, 2008, we were euphoric and full of delusional hope over the imminent passage of the Employee Free Choice Act and the restoration of labor. On Nov. 9, 2016, we were paralyzed by despair and denial. …

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When Janus Backfires: A Test Case In Labor Solidarity After Fair Share

Leave a Comment / unions / By max cyril

In the aftermath of this summer’s Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision attacking public-sector unions, the University of Illinois at Chicago is rapidly becoming a bellwether for how those unions might sink or swim in a world without fair share. UIC prides itself on being one of the most diverse college campuses in the country and one of the most …

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The Union Difference Is Even More Pronounced for Families of Color

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A new report from the Center for American Progress shows that union membership helps increase wealth and prosperity for families of color. The research comes on top of recent polls showing that more and more people are embracing the powerful benefits of collective bargaining. Here are some of the key findings of the report: When …

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Study: Popularity of Joining Unions Surges

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After holding steady for decades, the percentage of American workers in all jobs who would say yes to join a union jumped sharply this past year, by 50%, says a new, independent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The evidence is clear: The popularity of the labor movement is surging as more people want to join unions than …

Union membership rose in 2017

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This is somewhat unexpected: overall union membership rose by 262,000 workers in 2017, while union density stayed at 10.7 percent. The Economic Policy Institute’s Lawrence Mishel warns against reading too much into the numbers, but pulls out the following interesting data points: Union membership became more common among men: some 32 percent of the net increase in …

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How Business Unionism Got Us to Janus

Leave a Comment / AFSCME, Public Workers, unions / By max cyril

In September, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus vs. AFSCME, a case that has the potential to undermine public sector unions by curtailing unions’ right to charge non-members an “agency fee.” This fee covers the protection and services the union is obligated to provide all employees in the bargaining unit. Many labor leaders and …

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The UAW Vote in Mississippi is a Battle for the Soul of the U.S. Labor Movement

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After years of painstaking work by United Auto Workers (UAW) organizers to build support for a union at the big Nissan auto and truck assembly plant near Canton, Miss., the workers themselves will vote today and tomorrow on whether to accept UAW their collective bargaining voice at the plant. “I think it [union approval] will …

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union membership

The ACLU of Illinois Seeks a Playbook for Acceptable Progressive Union Busting

Unions see big new worker interest amid coronavirus threats

Maine Union Members Answer the Call on Path to Power

Forget Elections—Labor Needs To Get Back to Its Roots

When Janus Backfires: A Test Case In Labor Solidarity After Fair Share

The Union Difference Is Even More Pronounced for Families of Color

Study: Popularity of Joining Unions Surges

Union membership rose in 2017

How Business Unionism Got Us to Janus

The UAW Vote in Mississippi is a Battle for the Soul of the U.S. Labor Movement

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