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Sharon Block
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Why Corporate America Needs to Listen to Workers’ Voices
September 5, 2023
Like many frontline workers across the country, Denise Kohr saw her pay at Amazon increase over the past year; as for her say, not so…
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Overtime pay would cover millions more workers under proposed Biden rule
September 1, 2023
The Biden administration unveiled a new rule Wednesday to extend overtime pay to an additional 3.6 million salaried white-collar workers in the United States. While…
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Biden Appointees Just Made It Easier For Workers To Form Unions
September 1, 2023
Joe Biden likes to think of himself as “the most pro-union president in American history.” Only time will tell if his assessment is correct, but…
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Why auto workers are on the brink of striking
August 30, 2023
Workers at Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers may soon hit the picket line. The Detroit Free Press reported that the 150,000 members of the United Auto…
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Why Does Starbucks Stall Union Negotiations? Because It Can.
August 29, 2023
In January of 2022, Jacklyn Gabel and her co-workers at the Starbucks Coffee location on Mission Street in Santa Cruz began considering the idea of…
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Autoworkers union pushes for 32 hour workweek
August 28, 2023
United Auto Workers voted on Friday to authorize a strike. The union is negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the Big 3 Detroit automakers…
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Unionization Nears Record Levels as Students, Interns Organize
August 24, 2023
Unionization so far this year has hit near-historic levels, with more than 58,000 workers—driven largely by graduate students and medical interns—voting to organize within the…
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Striking Workers Face Another Opponent: U.S. Labor Laws
August 18, 2023
The past 18 months have been marked by loud labor organizing efforts — and opposition — at several massive corporate enterprises, including Starbucks and Amazon.
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Trader Joe’s workers and union supporters rallied outside the company’s Boston headquarters Tuesday, accusing the grocery chain of retaliation against the union and demanding the…
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Termination risks, collecting unemployment: A look at workers rights amid a ‘summer of strikes’
August 7, 2023
The recent wave of worker strikes have ushered in a new era: the “summer of strikes,” also known as hot strike summer. Employees at UPS,…
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Walking Out of the Dream Factory
July 27, 2023
In the 1930s when the Three Stooges started appearing in movies, television was little more than experimental. …This existential quality of the Hollywood strike connects…
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UPS deal raises the bar for worker demands
July 26, 2023
UPS workers are celebrating the deal their union reached with the company on Tuesday as the biggest win in a generation. Why it matters: The…
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Why are there so many strikes in the US?
July 25, 2023
STORY: It’s a summer of strikes in the United States. From UPS workers on the verge… to Hollywood writers and actors like Susan Sarandon… “…if…
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America Is Barreling Toward a Summer of Strikes
July 20, 2023
More than 650,000 American workers are threatening to go on strike this summer — or have already done so — in an avalanche of union…
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Harvard Law labor expert Sharon Block on the Hollywood writers strike, AI, and what comes next
July 11, 2023
Labor expert Sharon Block says the Writers Guild of America’s weekslong strike could heat up in the fall when production companies run out of stockpiled scripts
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The union clash over Pride décor at Starbucks Corp. cafes poses a broader test on free speech in the workplace, with the coffee giant accusing…
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The Supreme Court, in the midst of a run of decisions that have stress-tested the core principles of US democracy, has rarely been so aggressive…
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Starbucks Corp. has agreed to give back pay to baristas unlawfully denied shifts at a University of Washington cafe, in a settlement that signals the…
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Starbucks Corp. has been found to have violated federal labor law hundreds of times in administrative rulings, a stark showing that the world’s largest coffee…
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal labor law did not protect a union from liability for damage that arose during a strike, and…
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Ron DeSantis is coming for teachers’ unions. It’s just the latest attack against the labor movement
May 17, 2023
For any member of a union, dues are often automatically deducted from their paychecks. But for teachers and government employees who are union members in…