An “overwhelming majority” of 130 editorial staffers at Law360 have voted to unionize with the New York NewsGuild. They join a slew of other media outlets that have unionized in the past year.
After a 4-4 ruling following the death of Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court says it will not reopen the Friedrichs case about public union dues, which means that public unions are safe, for now. Please laugh in Chris Christie’s stupid face today, if you see him.
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Needs to Unionize ASAP
Earlier this week, Ze Frank—the leader of BuzzFeed’s burgeoning video empire, BuzzFeed Motion Pictures—issued a public memo to his employees explaining the terms of their employment. The crux of the memo—the necessity of which was sparked by Frank firing two women for appearing in videos produced by other…
Foreign Policy Staffers Unionize
Editorial employees of the magazine Foreign Policy have voted to unionize. They will become members of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.
On the same day Macy’s narrowly averted a strike by its employees, union representatives say there is “overwhelming support” for a July 1 strike by more than 6,000 Atlantic City casino workers, whose average pay is less than $25,000 per year. Fortunately, strikes tend to work.
Strikes Still Work
For the vast majority of working Americans, wages have been almost flat for the past 35 years. How can regular working people get more money? Organize. And strike.
Union Leaders: Stop Fucking Up
In this bizarre presidential election season, will the Democrats allow petty infighting and lack of vision to successfully put Donald Trump in the White House? Some labor union leaders are doing their best to fuck things up already.
Vice Media editorial staffers have officially ratified their first union contract, which gives them substantial raises, severance pay, and other benefits. The vote was 73-2.
Vice Writers Get a Union Contract With a Big Raise
Editorial employees at Vice Media, who unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East last summer, have tentatively agreed on their first union contract. It comes with a big raise.
After working without a contract for more than eight months, 39,000 union Verizon workers in the Northeast are on strike. Support them by not wasting your life looking at screens. It’s a beautiful day outside.
Union-Hating Retailer Vows Not to Build Store as Long as Obama Is President
Menards is an enormous, privately held home improvement chain owned by a union-hating Republican billionaire. They are now vying for the title of Most Extreme Corporate Overreaction to the 2016 election.
Tomorrow, the Chicago Teachers Union will hold a one-day walkout to protest budget cuts, pay, and contract issues. “It has been death by a thousand cuts,” one teacher says. “But recently it’s felt more like, I don’t know, chopping off our arms.”
Boston University Does Not Want to Hear Anything From Union Members
Despite being enlightened centers of learning and freedom and progress, many universities are not fans of unions. In fact, universities may be the foremost genteel anti-labor institutions in America.
