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NLRB Lawyer: Keep Union Insignia Rule
Over the past few months President Biden and his appointees have worked to overturn a number of Trump initiatives. Some of these include getting rid of Trump’s anti-union executive orders and...
Link: Cops and Capitol Insurgency
On January 6th a mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to stop the Congress from approving the Electoral College vote that would make Joe Biden the President. The...
Amazon Illegally Interrogated Worker
As COVID started to spread in March of 2020, warehouse workers in Queens, New York staged two walkouts to protest Amazon’s handling of the outbreak. This walkout spurred a number of COVID-...
Union Jobsite Access Heard by Supreme Court
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard the case of Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid. The case challenges a California law that allows union organizers to gain access to the property of agricultural employers...
Construction Deaths Increase in New York City
This week, the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) released their annual construction fatality report. The report looked at newly available data from 2019 and found a...
National Amazon Day of Action Saturday
With just over a week left of voting in the historic union election at the Amazon Warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, union activists are holding solidarity rallies at warehouses, Whole Foods, and Amazon...
Unions Speak out On Rise in Violence against Asian Americans
One year ago, the world changed as many countries around the world shut down to protect their citizens from COVID-19. In the following twelve months, Asian Americans have faced increasing attacks as...
Union Apprentice Saves a Life
The IBEW Life Saving Award is the highest honor bestowed by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. It recognizes an IBEW member or non-member in the saving of a human life —...
OPM: Remove Trump Union-Busting Orders from CBA's
On President Joe Biden’s third day in office, he signed an Executive Order repealing Trump’s anti-union executive orders that forced federal agencies to institute anti-union provisions...
RWDSU Disavows Boycott Amazon
This week, union members from around the country and the world have taken part in a grassroots effort to boycott Amazon. The decision to take part in this boycott was to support the workers in...