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The Wall Street Journal's NewsGuild local is resisting calls to put out a statement in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Project findings are expected to yield richer detail on the experiences of Black workers in the South and may translate to more impactful organizing efforts in the future.

When nurses gather on a corner, hold signs and talk to reporters, is it a press conference or a picket? Union, MVHS disagree

The U.S. Department of Labor announces the appointment of Angela Thompson and Jonathan Rolfe to the Administrative Review Board by Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, strengthening the Boards role in adjudicating worker protection laws.

The embourgeoisement of organized labor proceeds at a fast clip. Graduate students, adjunct professors, digital journalists, congressional staffers, NGO do-gooders—they all want to join unions, and more power to them. While their college and graduate degrees may exclude them from any conventional definition of “working class,” their anemic paychecks do not. But the professional-managerial class is never going to be the beating heart of a thriving labor movement, because that...

The holiday rush is on, bringing with it boxes, bags and familiar scenes of shoppers knocking each other over. Less visible is the peril lurking inside warehouses.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Employees at an Albuquerque Wells Fargo branch are working to unionize.  A group of six workers at the location near Montgomery and Juan Tabo filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board Monday morning. A Wells Fargo branch in far western Alaska also filed a union petition Monday.  In a letter to Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf, the Albuquerque workers say their location is understaffed. Workers say they’re often forced to cover more than one job ...

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The moderate South Texas Democrat has held meetings with union leaders and filed a labor-backed bill this month. But he still shares some disagreements with the movement.