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“Seven months ago if you asked me about a union I would’ve said, ‘I don’t know, cops have them?’” says Sarah Pappin, a shift supervisor at a Seattle Starbucks. But on June 6, she and her co-workers voted unanimously to join Starbucks Workers United, part of an upsurge of organizing by younger workers with little union experience that is breathing new life into the labor

None of the upstart unions has won a contract yet, Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay report. But there is a new sense of possibility among workers at some of the country’s biggest nonunion employers.  By Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay Labor Notes “Seven months ago, if you asked me about a union

So, as a result of the Trump era appointments to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is no more.  The five to four vote was not an academic one, independent of the religious beliefs and political involvements of the Justices.  It was, flat out for the five justices who voted Roe down, a personal statement.

The Stranger's labor news roundup.

The rare planetary alignment in mid-June was accompanied by the equally rare alignment of the AFL-CIO convention and the Labor Notes conference. It’s not often there is the opportunity for such direct comparison of the top leadership and activist base of the labor movement. The AFL-CIO met from June 12-15 in Philadelphia. The theme of the convention was “Organize and Rise.”