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Major strike activity increased nearly 50% in 2022

In many cases, strikes are planned but then averted. A credible threat to strike can often provide workers the leverage they need to ...

Biden team launches organizing pilot project in Wisconsin and Arizona

... many voter conversations are they having?” Reid, the DNC's states director, said of the testing phase. “What does that mean for the balance ...

Member Services - Wisconsin Laborers' District Council

... workers and our families, and organizing new members. The International ... work you do conforms to every aspect of the agreement. Working under a ...

On-the-Ground Organizing Continues to Spread Spirit of Wisconsin ...

When Wisconsin unions fought back against Gov. Scott Walker's attack on workers' rights last winter, they focused on legislative votes and giant rallies in ...

Today's AFL-CIO Press Clips

Construction unions held a celebration for the labor and investment from organized labor for the 31-story Couture project, which is starting to ...

Police Unions And The Labor Movement - The [F]law

They will not do it with the understanding of the ... do with unions, organized labor, or the relationship between workers and bosses.

How Unions and Right-to-Work Laws Affect the Economy

Only private-sector wages are relevant for Wisconsin policymakers to consider when evaluating RTW. Table 4 shows RTW does reduce government pay, ...

Organizing Workers in the Space between Unions - ResearchGate

... workers engaged in collective action, and developed. novel approaches to organizing. And they did so, by necessity, outside the traditional.

Race, Labor, and Coalition Building in Racine, Wisconsin

vate industrial and many public sector workplaces were organized by the 1950s, work-. 13. Kitzman interview; Cohen, Making a New Deal, 2, 355 ...

Dispelling Labor Myths: The Truth About Union Dues

For example, when Amazon workers were attempting to organize in ... much of people's hard-earned money to use as they see fit. Nothing ...

College workers organize amid nationwide labor unrest

Many workers say they make below a living wage. ... With union-friendly Biden in the White House, campus workers feel they have the extra leverage ...

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

During a period of labor organizing in museums across the ... Wisconsin Statehouse, maintenance workers there have been hard pressed to do their jobs.

4.15 Leveraged Resources

Public programs authorized by WIOA; Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program; Department of Labor National Emergency Grants; Wisconsin State funding. Leveraged ...

Five Lessons from the History of Public Sector Unions | Labor Notes

And as public employees, the workers had no legal rights to collective bargaining. Yet they did organize. On top of mobilizing hundreds of ...

Unions have enthusiasm, media spotlight. But membership numbers ...

A tight labor market has given workers more leverage, while ... "You can't really organize yourself out of that kind of hole on a ...

This Labor Day, Unions Are Getting More Attention in Wisconsin

Nationwide, employers saw an uptick in labor organizing in the three quarters of federal fiscal year 2022 as U.S. workers seek higher pay, ...

A New Age of Worker Empowerment - Boston Review

In 2018 many of those workers began organizing through the Awood Center, an ... Workers can leverage insider information to bargain for the common good.

American Federation of Labor - Wikipedia

was the largest union grouping, even after the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) by unions that were expelled by the A.F. of L. in 1935 ...

HRPA Q3 2022 NLRB Report - HR Policy Association

How do you engage your employees and hear their voice? Define who you are ... NLRA and making it much harder for employers to classify workers as contractors.

Wisconsin's “Smoking Gun Of The Rigged Economy”

At a news event today community leaders detailed how Rexnord outsourced Wisconsin jobs at the same time it took millions in public job creation ...