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What Amazon’s union battle in Alabama means for workers

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 17, 2021
Warehouse employees could become the first group at the tech giant to unionize.
Amazon workers hold up pro-union signs outside the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
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The PRO Act may protect workers even if it doesn't pass

by Jasmine Garsd
Mar 10, 2021
The bill, which offers sweeping protections for organized labor, may not pass the Senate. But it may stimulate conversation and education.
A union rally in Chicago. Most Americans support union rights, a Gallup survey found.
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The share of the workforce represented by unions increased last year

by Mitchell Hartman
Jan 26, 2021
Union workers lost fewer jobs than their non-union counterparts because of negotiated furloughs and other protections.
Flight attendants, airline pilots and other aviation workers hold a protest organized by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union urging Congress to pass a COVID-19 relief package and extend the Paycheck Support Program to save aviation jobs during a rally outside the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 9, 2020.
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Parenting in a Pandemic

Home child care workers unionize in California

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 29, 2020
Workers hope to strengthen an industry that has become even more precarious.
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Government labor board proposes rolling back a rule that made union organizing easier

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 14, 2018
Business organizations support the change, but labor activists say it would make low-wage contract workers more vulnerable.
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States may need to rewrite contracts and laws in the wake of Supreme Court’s Janus ruling

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 27, 2018
How might states be affected by overturning the established precedent allowing public-sector unions to collect fees from nonunion members? In places where the so-called agency fees have been allowed, state officials will have to rewrite the law and revise contracts with public-sector unions. Losing those agency fees will be a big financial hit for some […]
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Big labor win for grad students at private colleges

by Andy Uhler
Aug 24, 2016
On many campuses, many graduate students plan to organize.
A view of Columbia University.
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