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02/02/2024

Bookstore workers at San Francisco’s City Lights Booksellers and Publishers have agreed to unionize, with the City Lights Workers Union joining the Industrial Workers of the World Local 660. City Lights management has voluntarily recognized the union.

01/27/2018

What is the LA Times up to after its reporters voted to unionize?

A mysterious new management team appears to be quietly building a non-union network.

01/20/2018

Congratulations to the journalists of the Los Angeles Times, who voted to unionize under NewsGuild, part of our parent union Communications Workers of America! The decisive vote in favor of unionization was 248 to 44.

Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, a first for the 136-year-old news organization that for much of its history was known for its opposition to organized labor.

12/07/2017

UCLA's students have raised their voices to question the campus' response yesterday to the fire raging near campus. Today, students are not expected to attend classes, but staff are not being given the same courtesy. Does the university have staff's best interests at heart?

UCLA students are expressing their unhappiness with the way the university’s administration has handled communications about the Skirba...

10/20/2017

Looking for something empowering to watch this weekend? Newsies, the Tony-award winning stage production that celebrates the ability of unions to challenge the powerful, is streaming on Netflix if you have an account with them.

10/20/2017

"University of Chicago graduate students have voted to unionize by an overwhelming margin.

1,103 “yes” votes were counted, exceeding the combined 479 counted “no” votes and the 149 votes that were challenged. The two-day election closed Wednesday at 9 p.m. Votes were counted at the NLRB regional headquarters downtown Thursday."

1,103 "yes" votes were counted, exceeding the combined 479 counted "no" votes and the 149 votes that were challenged.

10/05/2017

Sometimes it's nice to reflect on all those who march alongside us, historically, in seeking workers' rights. If you have a minute, check out the lyrics to this classic union song... (full text here: http://unionsong.com/u159.html)

"...As we come marching, marching, un-numbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread,
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too..."

As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses For the people hear us singing, bread and roses, bread and roses. As we come marching, marching, we battle too, for men, For the...

10/01/2017

"Right to work" isn't.

Right to work is nothing more than a lie dressed up in a feel-good slogan. It doesn’t give workers freedom. It weakens our rights.

10/01/2017

Organize now.

President Shelton's statement on Janus v. AFSCME.