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Why some college athletes want to unionize
Feb 7, 2024
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth's men's basketball players are employees who can form a union.
Will labor unions maintain their momentum in 2024?
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Henry Epp
Dec 28, 2023
Unions are more visible and vocal than they've been in decades. If the labor market remains tight, they'll have negotiating leverage.
How important is a "ratification vote" in union contracts?
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Henry Epp
Nov 13, 2023
Union members from the auto industry to Hollywood actors are currently taking the votes. They are more than a rubber-stamping process.
In California, child care providers unionized for better pay and retirement benefits
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Daisy Nguyen
Oct 31, 2023
California is one of 11 states that allows in-home child care providers to bargain collectively. This year, the union that represents 40,000 of these workers in that state won big in their fight for better pay and benefits.
More workers move to create unions — but that doesn't always mean more members
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Henry Epp
Oct 16, 2023
Petitioning for union representation is just the first step in forming a union, and not all efforts make it to the finish line.
Former Yellow drivers have trouble finding jobs in right-to-work Tennessee
Oct 3, 2023
Nashville's Yellow Freight — one of the only union shops in trucking — shut down operations in August, leaving 30,000 people without work.
Autoworkers union pushes for 32 hour workweek
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Matt Levin
Aug 28, 2023
It may be a strategy to cope with the electric vehicle transition.
For public good, not for profit.
Why so many workers are going on strike these days
Jun 28, 2023
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.
Film and TV choreographers are organizing their own union
May 31, 2023
They want the residuals and better working conditions other guilds have obtained for members.
Businesses that serve TV and film productions brace for effects of the writers strike
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Lily Jamali
May 3, 2023
If it's anything like the last writers strike, it could halt production for 100 days.