A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
Teamsters employed by UPS practiced holding rallies ahead of the strike that wasn’t.
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Talks between the the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and company bosses have broken down. A supply chain expert explores what could happen next.
Ronald Reagan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, gives Lois Maxwell her member card in 1947.
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Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
As this picket sign says: lights, cameras, no action.
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Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in 2023 that lets children under 16 work without official permission from their parents.
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Changing workplace culture and the way jobs are designed can stave off depression, anxiety and burnout.
Lewis Wickes Hine, ‘A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill, 1909.’
Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (P545)
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While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of Labor is now under fire for failing to enforce these laws.
Hot flashes can happen anywhere, including at work.
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Young motivated employees are pushing the movement for union representation among US workforces. Is it time for management to get on board?
Many restaurant workers see violence as a core aspect of a hardscrabble kitchen culture that has existed for generations.
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Barbara Lynch’s alleged bullying of her employees is only the latest in a string of high-profile chef scandals. Two scholars explore how this behavior became normalized in kitchens across the US.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.
Cesar Chavez salutes the crowd on the steps of the California State Capitol.
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Research shows that workers rarely call out unethical behavior or even just operational problems, in large part because they fear serious consequences.
Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich in a 2005 photo.
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