Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2019/03/)
Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle and activist Eireann Dolan have been the most visible advocates of a push to keep the on field caps worn by MLB’s players, made in a union manufacturing facility.
Speakers at the news conference said Trump’s announcement was a welcome reprieve, but that a permanent solution was needed to put Liberian DED holders on a path to permanent residency and citizenship.
The labor union in the crosshairs of the right wing-led effort to gut public sector unions through a landmark Supreme Court case released new membership data Wednesday showing a decline that experts say could mark the beginning of larger losses, but is far shy of a fatal blow.
Wall Street pressure, particularly hedge funds and their managers, prompted the General Motors plant closures that will throw at least 14,000 United Auto Worker members – and countless other workers in GM’s supply chain – out of jobs, a new report(link is external) says.
Graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago began an indefinite strike on March 19, demanding livable wages and better working conditions as part of a national wave of educator-lead organized labor efforts
Staff at Gimlet Media have made history by becoming the first at a podcast company to unionize.
As part of national “Women in Construction Week,” women and men from local building trades unions gathered March 6 at Surly Brewing for the region’s second annual “Women Building Success” awards ceremony.
After months of planning, a small group of labor leaders, activists and scholars will open a new college this spring in St. Paul, inspired by the belief that working people can build the labor movement of the future, in part, by looking to the past.
Allowing local RTW ordinances could lead to what the unions described in their Seventh Circuit brief as a “crazy-quilt” of overlapping and inconsistent regulations.
“We’ll continue to talk about women being equal 200 more years from now if this is not made a part of our constitution, that women are explicitly identified in our constitution as equal”