Posts tagged worker power

    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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    Blog Research ● Unions

    WH Labor Task Force Won’t Boost Most American Workers, Just Unionized Ones

    February 16, 2022 // Labor activists often downplay their goals, suggesting few will be affected. But they would like to see all non-unionized workers, including independent contractors, universally unionized. Recently, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien shared with Boston Magazine, “I’d like to see everything unionized, not just those companies. Look, I think we can all agree that over the years, the independent contractor model has skirted a lot of wage and hour laws, and basically circumvents unionization. I’d love to see every single industry represented by a union.”

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    News Article ● Unionization

    ‘Unions benefit all of us’: new Biden plan encourages federal workers to unionize

    February 9, 2022 // Biden said the taskforce’s charge was to identify executive branch policies, practices and programs that could be used “to promote my administration’s policy of support for worker power, worker organizing, and collective bargaining”.

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