Dartmouth men's basketball team votes to unionize, shaking up college sports
Hours before their final game of the season, the Dartmouth men's basketball team has voted to join a...
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U.K. companies that tried a 4-day workweek report lasting benefits more than a year on
The four-day workweek is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving. Companies that have tried it a...
Hybrid workers: How's the office these days? We want to hear from you
Hybrid work. In many places, it's here to stay. For those of you at companies that offer hybrid work...
Flight attendants don't earn their hourly pay until aircraft doors close. Here's why
If air travel feels unusually taxing to you these days, you have company. Flight attendants are exas...
How dining hall activism inspired Dartmouth basketball players to fight for a union
The Dartmouth men's basketball team may not be headed for March Madness, but it is headed for someth...
Just 1 in 10 workers in the U.S. belonged to labor unions in 2023, a record low
Amid a burst of enthusiasm and energy amid high-profile strikes in 2023, labor unions added 139,000 ...
Amazon, Starbucks worker unions are in limbo, even as UAW and others triumph
It was a triumphant year for workers. Part-time UPS drivers got 55% raises. Airline pilots 40%. And ...
AI on the job. Some reviews are in. Useful, irresistible, scary
Baltimore illustrator John de Campos was irate when he discovered that some of his original work had...
GM autoworkers keep voting 'no' on record contract, imperiling deal
When United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain announced on October 30 that the union had reached a c...
Why thousands of UAW autoworkers are voting 'no' on Big 3's 'life-changing' contracts
Autoworkers at the Big 3 once set the gold standard for middle class life, with good wages and lifel...
UAW workers at major Ford and GM truck plants vote no on record contract deals
Autoworkers at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky., voted no on the contract agreement re...
The 4-day workweek: How one Ohio manufacturer is making it work
When Bill Kowalcic first heard that his company Advanced RV was trying out a four-day workweek, he w...
UAW and Ford reach a tentative deal in a major breakthrough in the auto strike
The United Auto Workers union and Ford have reached a tentative deal on a new contract on Wednesday,...
A manufacturing company in Ohio has found success with a 4-day workweek
A global trial of a four-day work week has yielded success stories — such as the one from a small ma...
UAW expands its auto strike once again, hitting a key plant for Ram pickup trucks
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain was adamant last week that the Big Three automakers can sti...
The Big 3 automakers now have record offers on the table. UAW says they can do more
In the five weeks since autoworkers first walked out at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the off...
Not just autoworkers: Grad students make up a growing share of UAW members
On a recent Saturday, a crowd marched in the rain outside a Stellantis parts distribution center in ...
Autoworkers used to have lifelong health care and pension income. They want it back
Health care coverage for life. Guaranteed monthly income until you die. These are benefits very few ...
UAW announces new approach in its historic strike against the Big Three automakers
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said on Friday the union would not expand the strike immedi...
Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It's working
With most of the federal government's pandemic relief money for child care now spent, it's up to sta...
With pandemic relief money gone, child care centers face difficult cuts
For almost a year, early childhood teachers at A Place to Grow in Oak Hill, W.Va., enjoyed a $200 bo...
When Uncle Sam stops paying the childcare bill
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States took dramatic action to invest in child care. Now in...
UAW strike Day 5: New Friday deadline set, in latest turn in union strategy
As autoworkers enter a fifth day of strikes at plants in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio, United Auto Wo...
UAW strike day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs
As the auto workers' strike enters day 4, the two sides are digging in. On one side are the United A...
As UAW strike begins, autoworkers want to 'play hardball'
Autoworkers' emotions — from excitement to fear and apprehension — are running high as their union, ...
Why autoworkers' leader is calling for a 4-day work week from Big 3 car makers
What if you could work just four days a week but get paid for five? That's essentially what Shawn Fa...
As federal workers are ordered back to their offices, pockets of resistance remain
Early this year, House Republicans decided enough is enough. "The federal workforce needs to get bac...
4 things to know on Labor Day — from the Hot Labor Summer to the Hollywood strikes
This Labor Day, one thing's for sure: Organized labor is on the move. Unions have already notched so...
Remote work is harder to come by as companies push for return to office
Back in 2020, when schools were still virtual and city dwellers were living their lives in masks, Ja...
Corporate DEI initiatives are facing cutbacks and legal attacks
Just three years after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off a torrent of hiring of chie...