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Clean Energy Investments Can Lead to Good Union Jobs
During the Biden years, infrastructure investments helped create clean energy jobs, some of which were union jobs. The Trump administration is working to reverse those gains.
Unions and Worker Power
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Solidarity Strikes and Taft-Hartley’s Long Shadow
For decades, the Taft-Hartley Act has done serious damage to the labor movement — in part by making it impossible for workers to organize solidarity strikes.
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Every Worker Deserves Paid Leave
Paid leave is overwhelmingly popular with the public, and provides workers with an essential benefit. But it is still not available to millions of workers.
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How the WNBA Players Union Secured Massive Wins in Their New Contract
The WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement represents some major wins on issues that matter to all workers.
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In Florida, The Erosion of Academic Freedom and Attacks on Public-Sector Unions Go Hand in Hand
There is direct link between Florida’s attacks on public sector unions and the state government’s war on the social sciences.
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Florida Workers Deserve A Better May Day Than This
Florida’s proposed SB 1296 would weaken public-sector unions by imposing stricter recertification rules, making it harder for workers to maintain representation.
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Fair Scheduling Laws Give Workers Real Protections
New York is one of several cities with fair scheduling laws, which provide a model for how to provide some economic security for low-wage workers.
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Increase Unionization
Decades of policy decisions have weakened workers’ ability to organize unions. Reversing course will raise wages and reduce inequality.
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States of the Unions: The Shifting Geography of US Labor
Unions have lost ground over the past 40 years — see which states have been most dramatically impacted, and which have held strong.
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Worker Interests Are Not the Same as Corporate Interests
The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece about labor rights that deserves a close read.
