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Point Park University will not renew the contracts of 17 non-tenured faculty members, the university announced this week. A university spokesman did not answer questions about what specific academic departments would be affected in the Downtown institution, which serves around 4,000 students. The change was allowed through a collective bargaining

Rep. John Sarbanes, author of the resolution to advocates say would expand voting rights and clean up Washington corruption, announced this morning that all House Democrats will sign on as co-sponsors of the H.R. 1.

More than two dozen groups are seeking to get rid of New York state and city tax breaks tied to the federal Opportunity Zone program

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It is no secret that private sector union membership has dramatically decreased over the past several decades. This reality has forced labor organizers to get creative with their efforts. Perhaps this is one reason why stories of a union presence at tech industry giant, Google, have recently gained so much attention. Reports of a “minority union” at Google began to swirl earlier this year after a group of several hundred Google em...

Jennifer Abruzzo is a former deputy general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board.

Stop union busting! BAmazon Union now! Amazon Warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., are in a historic organizing drive for union representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. They received significant support at a Feb. 6 rally. Workers World Party comrades (pictured) joined participants ranging from nurses to miners, travelling from in-state and from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Tennessee.  Union solidarity for the majority Black workforce came from the ...

Solidarity with Alabama Amazon workers! All out for Feb. 20 National Day of Solidarity! By Martha Grevatt posted on February 8, 2021 Communication Workers (CWA) members support Amazon union drive, Bessemer, Ala., Feb. 6. Southern workers: We got your back! Organize the South! The Southern Workers Assembly has gotten behind the Amazon workers, calling for a National Day of Solidarity Feb. 20.  “All eyes are on Bessemer, Alabama, and the struggle to win the first U.S. union at Amazon — one...

Thursday, January 28, 2021 The election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the White House, a long-time vocal supporter of organized labor, coupled with control of both houses of the U.S. Congress by the traditionally labor-friendly Democratic Party, is the prelude to changes on the labor law front, a number of which are potentially significant. (Note that following Democratic victories in both Georgia runoff races, the U.S. Senate is technically split 50-50. However, in case of a tie vote in ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the White House, a long-time vocal supporter of organized labor, coupled with control of both houses of the U.S. Congress by the traditionally labor-friendly Democratic Party, is the prelude to changes on the labor law front, a number of which are potentially significant. (Note that following Democratic victories in both Georgia runoff races, the U.S. Senate is technically split 50-50. However, i...

Google scores again Its staff has set up an unconventional union Silicon Valley in California, a hot bed of high tech start-ups that have disrupted several industries, saw a disruption of its own. A few hundred workers of Alphabet Inc, the parent of Google, announced that they have formed a union. The rise of a union is sometimes seen as symptomatic of the failure of the organisation’s human resource function. If you understood and took care of the needs of the employees, why would they need...