Union Accuses Sierra Club of Plotting to Fire Strikers

Tensions were already high coming into this round of contract negotiations. Last year, the Sierra Club began laying off large numbers of employees in order to account for a purported $60 million budget gap and restructure the organization around state-based Continue reading Union Accuses Sierra Club of Plotting to Fire Strikers

The Actors’ Union May Have Come Up Short in the A.I. Wars

When Kate Bond, a Los Angeles-based actress who served as a strike captain alongside fellow members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television, first learned that her union’s national board had made a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Continue reading The Actors’ Union May Have Come Up Short in the A.I. Wars

Why Working Stiffs Don’t Mind Trump Crapping on Their Union

Why does the working class no longer support the party of working men and women? Well, obviously the decline of organized labor plays a huge role; the proportion of private-sector workers represented by a union is 6 percent, about half Continue reading Why Working Stiffs Don’t Mind Trump Crapping on Their Union

Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says

These changes are a clear attempt to make the amendment seem far more extreme and dangerous than it actually is. LaRose said the full amendment text will still be available at election boards and on posters at voting stations, but Continue reading Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says