President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line on Sept. 26, 2023, alongside UAW President Shawn Fain.
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Biden is arguably the most pro-union occupant of the White House since the New Deal.
Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission’s chair, announced the ban.
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There are better ways to keep employees on board, such as boosting pay and providing better benefits.
Service sector jobs have unique risks.
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Conservatively speaking, workplace violence costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
More than 400 Starbucks shops have voted to join a union so far.
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The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tenn., were fired.
A group of fired Starbucks employees celebrate the result of a vote to unionize a Memphis shop on June 7, 2022.
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The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tennessee, were fired.
Two travel nurses talk on FaceTime with their 4-year-old son while working far from home at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in 2021.
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A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed in 1933 the law that led to the National Labor Relations Board’s emergence.
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Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
The aftershocks of George Floyd’s death are still reverberating for Home Depot.
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Racism can be a workplace issue, even at Home Depot.
How would you feel if your workplace was tracking how you feel?
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Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.
A Dearborn policeman knocked unconscious was the first casualty of the 1932 Ford Hunger March in Detroit and Dearborn.
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On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions, sparking America’s labor movement. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.
Massive gains in productivity haven’t led to more time free from work.
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In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, the normal workweek would decrease to 15 hours. Why was he wrong?
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, speaks as former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill listens during a House hearing in December 2023 − before they both resigned.
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Barring evidence of moral turpitude or excessive absenteeism, former administrators are very hard to force out.
Some teens get tendinitis from scooping ice cream.
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Better training and supervision make younger workers less vulnerable to injuries.
SAG-AFTRA captain Mary M. Flynn rallies fellow striking actors on a picket line outside Netflix studios in November 2023.
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Two labor scholars argue that the balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift.
About 46,000 autoworkers gradually went on strike starting in mid-September.
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Rank-and-file union members employed by the automakers have to ratify the new contracts before they become official.
Victims’ names engraved in a metal overhang, part of the Triangle Shirtwaist Memorial, are reflected in mirroring panels along the sidewalk.
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A memorial at the site of the 1911 fire remembers those who died; a cadre of young Jewish women helped push for change in the wake of the tragedy.
What role will race play in determining who gets the job?
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People who object to affirmative action were more likely to discriminate against job candidates with Black-sounding names than those who supported it, whether or not they had to rush.
UAW President Walter Reuther, center, shakes hands with a Ford executive after agreeing on a three-year contract in 1967.
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Reuther was both ambitious and pragmatic, scoring many victories for autoworkers.
Striking members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in New York City in 1958.
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Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
Digital payment methods may automatically prompt you to leave a gratuity.
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Tipping seems to be more coercive and less tied to service quality these days.