Articles

  1. The Fight to Unionize Food Processing Plants in the CarolinasFood processing is one of the most important and least visible parts of the American economy. In North and South Carolina, workers turn poultry, pork, seafood,…
  2. Indiana Auto Parts Dispute Puts Union Rights Under ScrutinyA labour dispute at an auto parts supplier in Indiana has drawn attention after pro-union employees were reportedly dismissed while filings moved through the…
  3. Union electricians win stronger footing in public constructionUnion electricians have secured a place in $50 million worth of prevailing wage projects, strengthening the connection between public investment and well-paid…
  4. New Jersey's card-check law reshapes public sector union recognitionNew Jersey has become the latest US state to overhaul how public employees form unions, enacting legislation that lets workers secure bargaining rights through…
  5. How Lordstown Changed Safety on Auto Assembly LinesThe most important workplace reforms in car manufacturing were often born far from a parliamentary chamber. They grew out of disputes over production speed,…
  6. Sheet metal workers build a lobbying campaign for Buy American rulesSheet metal workers in the United States are building political pressure around federal procurement rules that favour domestically produced steel, aluminium,…
  7. Teamsters Target Amazon’s Whole Foods for Organising DriveThe Teamsters’ push to organise workers at Amazon-owned Whole Foods is placing grocery retail, warehouse logistics and corporate accountability in the same…
  8. Union pension capital powers the green manufacturing shiftAcross the United States, the trillions of dollars managed by union pension funds are quietly reshaping the industrial landscape. Trustees who once…
  9. Kellogg's Nebraska workers vote to leave the unionIn late 2024, roughly 370 workers at the Kellogg's ready-to-eat cereal plant in Omaha, Nebraska cast ballots in a federally supervised election that ended with…
  10. Labor Leaders Respond to Biden's Expanded Overtime RuleThe U.S. Department of Labor finalised a long-awaited regulation raising the salary threshold below which workers automatically qualify for overtime pay. Union…