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If it succeeds, California’s legal protections for farmworkers could be rolled back to conditions that prevailed before César Chavez’s campaigns for farm unionization in the 1960s.

The key to this grassroots unionism lies in the connection between organizing and collective bargaining aimed at improvements in wages, working and living conditions. What was striking, from an Italian viewpoint, was the lack of political discussion.

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New York labor law will require employers to provide paid leave for pregnant employees for prenatal care, starting 2025.

"It is a day of resistance and demand," said trade groups that organized the action "in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living wage."

“This vote today is the first step in demonstrating our solidarity and sends a clear message to Apple,” said the IAM CORE Negotiating Committee in a statement.

A limited series podcast covering the 1930s rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and its legacy.

Despite a history of labor’s hostility toward AAPI workers, we are a vital part of today’s labor movement and remain vigilant to ensure we do not regress in the name of trade or nationalism. We fight for worker rights and safe communities.

The lab professionals employed by the medical lab services company, LabCorp of America, held a union election from March 1-3 where 434 workers voted to join together in a union with the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

Three labor disputes along the same highway in Alabama demonstrate the challenges and hopes facing unions in the Deep South.