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September 17, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Judge Strikes Blow Against NLRB in Troubling Sign of What’s Next
Judge Mark Pittman just granted a request in a legal case seeking to demolish the National Labor Relations Board.
June 27, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Sotomayor Torches Supreme Court’s Short-Sightedness in SEC Ruling
Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out her conservative colleagues for ignoring a “mountain of precedent.”
February 21, 2024
Matt Ford
Elon Musk and Amazon Team Up to Try to Demolish Workers’ Rights
A handful of corporations with notoriously bad labor practices are hoping to convince the Supreme Court to gut the National Labor Relations Board.
December 18, 2023
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Steven Greenhouse
How Corporations Crush New Unions
Bargaining-table negotiations over a first contract are never easy, but now they’re becoming excruciatingly slow and difficult. For companies like Trader Joe’s, that’s the goal.
October 26, 2023
Timothy Noah
Thank You, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for Flagging Biden Labor Policies You Hate
The organization’s whining makes it clear: Biden’s labor record is better than you (or anyway, I) knew.
January 5, 2023
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Bryce Covert
Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.
After a banner year for organizing the retail and service industries, workers are learning a hard truth about labor negotiations.
May 14, 2022
Jason Linkins
Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy
The White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats get locked out of power at the federal level in November.
April 20, 2022
Timothy Noah
Jennifer Abruzzo Has Become One of the Quiet Heroes of the Biden Administration
The NLRB’s general counsel shows herself once again to be the Biden administration’s leading light on expanding labor rights.
April 8, 2022
Timothy Noah
Team Biden Strikes a Major Blow for Labor
The NLRB’s Jennifer Abruzzo argues boldly that management “captive audience” meetings are illegal.
February 9, 2022
Timothy Noah
Biden Is Doing All He Can for Unions, but It Still Isn’t Enough
A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.
December 14, 2021
Rebecca Nathanson
The 20-Year Fight to Unionize Graduate Student Workers
The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor.
June 12, 2017
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Max Rivlin-Nadler
Trump the Union Buster
For graduate students fighting to unionize, time is running out.
February 1, 2010
John B. Judis
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