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Op-ed / Commentary Research ● Unionization Unions

Workers Are Beating Big Bosses, but Organized Labor Can’t Keep Up

April 27, 2022 // Worker-led unions are transformational, while organized labor has become transactional.

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Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unionization Unions

Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic

April 25, 2022 // Many American consumer companies, including Amazon and McDonalds, have been dealing with a surging interest in unionization by their employees, spurred in part by the pandemic-driven recognition that their employers have consistently undervalued their contributions to business success.

Blog Op-ed / Commentary ● PRO Act Unions

Contesting the PRO Act’s Coercive Vision

April 1, 2022 // The Employee Rights Act presents a firm contrast with the vision outlined in the PRO Act and supported by Big Labor and its allies in Congress and the Biden administration. Where the PRO Act increases union financial coercion of workers to aid its political allies, the ERA reduces it. Where the PRO Act infringes on workers’ informed consent on union formation, the ERA protects it. Where the PRO Act limits worker privacy, the ERA expands it. Where the PRO Act fails to provide financial transparency and scrutiny in union operations, the ERA provides it. And where the PRO Act endorses Big Labor’s every-job-a-factory-job vision, the ERA promotes modern understandings of compensation and flexibility in working arrangements.

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News Article ● Strike Unions

US unions see unusually promising moment amid wave of victories

March 16, 2022 // Gebre said the nation’s unions should send far more organizers and money to back the union drives at Starbucks and Amazon. “The rest of the labor movement should be willing to lend a hand,” even if they don’t get any of the members, said Gebre, who was recently named Greenpeace’s chief program officer. “That’s what solidarity means.”

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News Article ● Unionization Unions

Young workers give unions new hope

February 15, 2022 // Multiple polls show union approval is high __ and growing __ among the youngest workers. And U.S. union membership levels are even ticking upward for workers between 25 and 34, even as they decline among other age groups.

News Article ● Strike

25 companies where workers went on strike during a season of labor unrest and worker activism

November 20, 2021 // From September to November, workers at more than 25 companies manned picket lines, banged on upturned buckets, and chanted during campaigns for everything from higher wages to safer working conditions.

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