by Justin | Feb 5, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, Organizing
“Prospects for major labor law reform under the Biden administration are directly tied to unions’ and union federations’ willingness to hold the administration’s feet to the fire,” one former union organizer told Strikewave early this year....
by Justin | Jan 26, 2021 | Amazon, Organizing
Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are to vote next month on whether to unionize, the largest and most viable effort of its kind involving the technology giant. Read the article here.
by Justin | Jan 19, 2021 | Administration Caucus, Labor Notes, Nelson Lichtenstein, Organizing, UAW Corruption Scandal
“The UAW has been a one-party regime for many decades because the union convention, which elects all the top national officers, has been tightly controlled by an “Administration Caucus,” which routinely wins an overwhelming proportion of the delegate vote.Actual...
by Justin | Jan 18, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, NLRB, Organizing, President Joseph Biden
A lot has been written about the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act since it passed the House of Representatives in February 2020, but I have yet to find a detailed breakdown of the bill’s proposed amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that is...
by Justin | Jan 9, 2021 | Organizing, Queens Public Defenders, UAW Local 2325
Last month, Queens Defenders employees announced their plan to organize under the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA), an affiliate of the United Auto Workers that represents workers at legal nonprofits. Ninety percent of eligible employees signed union...
by Justin | Jan 5, 2021 | Google, Organizing
An explainer on non-contract unions, how workers at Alphabet are using this structure to build and maintain power, and why you should too. Read the article here.
