The Time is Now – Pass the PROAct!
When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in 1935, the workers in the United States were facing a lot of the same strife and struggle that workers today [...]
Workers Don’t Want a Handout – They Want Respect!
The world has spent the last fifteen months waging war against a pandemic, a battle that is still raging in many parts of the globe. Millions of people lost their [...]
Protecting Workers and Putting Safety First
Safety on the job has been one of the longest and hardest fought battles of the American worker. In 1970, Congress took an enormous leap towards making safety on the [...]
Putting People First – New Department of Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh
On January 7th, President Biden announced the last of his cabinet. Included in that list was Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh to be the Secretary of the Department of Labor – [...]
He Asked His Team How to Avoid Layoffs. Their Response Thrilled Him.
“Businesses love to talk about caring for people, but the conventional wisdom is, what really matters in these situations is your balance sheet,” Dan Price says. “Leaders will do layoffs [...]
Keeping Up the Fight
With states certifying their final votes from the November 3 election, what, if anything, was achieved for workers in this country? Was the needle moved in our favor, or was [...]
How Amazon keeps a close eye on employee activism to head off unions
“Amazon controls everything from bathroom breaks to communication with other employees,” Kochan said. “If a union comes in, they’re going to lose some of that control and that’s ultimately what [...]
Strength in Unity
The slogans of court packing and corruption are the same slogans Trump and his brethren used four years ago to distract us from moving ahead. The slogans are meant to [...]
50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers
However, the administration’s response to the pandemic is in no way distinct from its approach to governing since President Trump’s first day on the job. The administration has systematically promoted [...]
At 65%, Approval of Labor Unions in U.S. Remains High
Americans' support for unions is politically polarized, as it has been since 2001, when Gallup began tracking the measure annually. Democrats' current 83% approval of labor unions is the highest [...]