Tag: Labor unions
1 in 10 US workers belong to unions − a share...
Jake Rosenfeld, Washington University in St Louis
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The share of U.S. workers who...
United Auto Workers union hails its tentative strike-ending deals with Ford...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The United Auto Workers union agreed on tentative new contracts with Ford Motor Co....
US autoworkers may wage a historic strike against Detroit’s 3 biggest...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture...
Why so many unions oppose vaccine mandates – even when they...
Jeffrey Hirsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor unions have...
Fired for storming the Capitol? Why most workers aren’t protected for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol?
Of course you can.
Among the jarring images...
To understand the danger of COVID-19 outbreaks in meatpacking plants, look...
Michael Haedicke, Drake University
Large meatpacking plants have become hotspots for coronavirus infection, along with jails and nursing homes. As of May 1, nearly 5,000...
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared – and then his legacy took on a...
David Scott Witwer, Pennsylvania State University
On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the Teamsters Union, disappeared.
He’d gone to a restaurant in...
How Democrats can win back workers in 2020
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
Labor unions and the workers they represent were once the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
The 2016...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
