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Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.

The Democratic Party insiders who dominate the Federation and many of its unions–the same forces who quickly condemned Kelber’s age as the primary reason to ignore and even attack him–will all compete energetically to prove their politically correct credentials and strict loyalty to identity politics.

Current AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, always eager to share the news that “public opinion polls show that big majorities of working people in the U.S. support unions…”

The official story from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and President Trump is a lie.

For unions to survive, they must adopt antifascism.

How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today.

In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Hundreds of Amazon drivers at a delivery station in Queens, New York, marched on their bosses today to announce they are joining the Teamsters.

Soon after Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government, opposition emerged to the Biden administration in a place that many professional political commentators found confounding: within U.S. trade unions.

The Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters have signed an affiliation agreement.

As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced.

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.

Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Union.

Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.

In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.

On Nov. 23, close to 600,000 public sector workers in Quebec were on strike. Considering that Quebec has around 4,439,000 people active in the labour market, this represents 13.5 per cent of all workers in the province!

Let’s hope Swedish workers win and workers in all countries where Tesla operates take note and act accordingly.

Every Friday for the past four weeks, Big 3 CEOs have waited fearfully for Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain to announce which plants will strike next.

Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed.