Besides fighting for workers’ benefits, unions can influence whether workers take advantage of the ones already available to them, a new study shows.
America’s most significant worker protections are failing to protect millions of female employees. As unions decline, can smaller advocacy groups change that?
Do mission-driven organizations with tight budgets have any choice but to demand long, unpaid hours of their staffs?
Membership rates are at historic lows for all American workers, especially those in their 20s and early 30s—and yet, that’s a generation with unusually favorable opinions of organized labor and what it stands for.
Membership rates are at historic lows for all American workers, especially those in their 20s and early 30s—and yet, that’s a generation with unusually favorable opinions of organized labor and what it stands for.
Whether I was working as a barista or a paralegal, the story was the same: My employers wanted me to keep my mouth shut about money.