by Justin | Jul 20, 2022 | Dia Art Foundation, Organizing, The Art Newspaper, UAW Local 2110, Unionization
The Dia Art Foundation is the latest cultural institution to join the growing unionising movement. The United Auto Workers (UAW) released a press release today (18 July) further outlining the staff’s reasons for unionising, which includes low wages, job insecurity and...
by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Organizing, Robert Reich, Unionization
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) once ensured workers’ right to form unions and bargain collectively. But the Act has been steadily weakened by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, court decisions, Ronald Reagan’s repudiation of unions, and decades of inaction by...
by Justin | Dec 29, 2021 | NLRB, Organizing, Unionization
This website provides information about elections governed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since 2008. The data captures most private sector union elections in the United States; union elections governed by the Federal Labor Relations Agency (FLRA), the...
by Justin | Nov 22, 2021 | Organizing, Unionization
Unions aren’t just about strikes and politics—the stories the media covers. There’s a big story the media usually misses about unions: how, concretely, they improve workers’ lives.“Back in the day, we didn’t have any say on anything,” said one union worker....
by Justin | Oct 6, 2020 | Organizing, Unionization
Amazon has long opposed the idea of its warehouse employees forming a union, though much of its anti-union strategies have stayed under wraps. But a confidential Amazon internal memo viewed by Recode reveals how the company is making significant investments in...
by Justin | Sep 23, 2020 | UAW Local 2110, Unionization
After more than a year of work, labor organizers working with employees at the Museum of Fine Arts filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board earlier this month to hold a union election, a move that could potentially affect hundreds of administrative,...
