Sharon Block

Film and TV studios could replace striking writers with artificial intelligence bots, and there’s not much labor unions could do to stop it without language…

An op-ed by Sharon Block: If you breathe air, drink water, get paid overtime, or purchase energy-efficient appliances, your life has been touched by an…

Our April issue includes a package of articles on the duplicity of economic modeling that misinforms policy debates and decisions. Seemingly neutral models often conceal…

Union-busting, to borrow from H. Rap Brown, is as American as cherry pie. Employers get charged with violating federal labor law in no fewer than…

On Friday, Michigan repealed an 11-year-old law that weakened unions’ power in the workplace. Known as a “right-to-work” law, this type of legislation has been…

Lenny Peña, from Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been driving for Uber since 2017. At the beginning, he says he was able to make nearly $3,000 every…

Young workers are among the most vulnerable, and a recent surge in child labor law violations may prompt employers to evaluate their own practices and…

Labor organizing efforts achieved big gains in the retail and service sectors in 2022, suggesting high-profile campaigns at Starbucks Corp. and Apple Inc. stores have…

President Joe Biden is gearing up to give the annual State of the Union address. … But some proponents are hoping for glimpses on what the administration’s…

What do we do when we have the public on our side, when we have workers in motion, when we see people playing by the…

An article by Sharon Block: Much of corporate America has failed to connect the dots on two of the biggest economic stories of the last…

Amazon (AMZN) was cited for labor violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) this week. The violations centered on the company’s warehouses in…

Over 200,000 Americans went on strike in 2022, making it the hottest year for work stoppages since 2005. But a case argued before the U.S.

An article by Sharon Block: Striketober. Starbucks walkouts. Work stoppages at iconic companies like John Deere, The New York Times, and Kellogg’s. The number of…

An article by Sharon Block: Tuesday’s argument in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters provided little new insight into how the Supreme Court may…

Grace Norris was hopeful when she logged into her first virtual bargaining session with Starbucks on the morning of October 24. A few months after…

The federal agency that oversees labor union activity will have its budget bumped up in the coming year as part of the omnibus spending bill…

Elon Musk, who admitted to overpaying for Twitter, cut workers at the social media platform almost immediately. In response, some of the axed employees want…

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case that union supporters fear could end up diminishing the power of workers to go on…

The government agencies of the New Deal revolution were created to check the cruelties of unregulated capitalism. They were born progressive. Their leaders were deeply…