Kaiser health care strike injects nation with another dose of labor tumult
Workers are staging the largest health care strike in U.S. history.
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Workers are staging the largest health care strike in U.S. history.
After decades of decline, American unions are once again challenging employers and using strikes to fight for better contracts. For the first time in recent memory, unions are taking strong, militant stances — and seem to be making major gains as a result. But how should this moment be understood, and what does it signal about the future of organized labor in the United States? In an interview with HBR, former National Labor Relations Board member Sharon Block explains the significance of new leadership, the legal landscape, and what lessons companies should take from what’s happening righ...
Hundreds of thousands of US workers have walked off the job this year. Instead of the exception, labour shortages could become the norm.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 grants private sector workers the right to strike, and they can’t be fired for doing so.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 grants private sector workers the right to strike, and they can't be fired for doing so.