The good thing about class consciousness is that you begin to realize that no matter how long you went to school, your problems are fundamentally the same as all the other people whose bank account balance is as low as yours.
Two workers in the U.S. Capitol and Senate cafeteria say they’ve been “relentlessly harassed and intimidated by our bosses” for trying to organize a union. Perhaps their customers could help them out?
Despite a thick serving of anti-union emails, employees at reality TV production company Leftfield Entertainment have voted to unionize by a 2-1 margin. Reality TV workers can use all the help they can get.
Last Friday, United States Labor Secretary Tom Perez visited Gawker Media’s headquarters to talk about jobs, inequality, unions, politics, the TPP, and much more. Watch him answer our questions, below.
I went to the White House this week, for the first and likely last time. Here is what I saw.
Last week, news leaked that writers at The Huffington Post had formed a committee to unionize. This morning, the campaign began in earnest. Get excited, Arianna!
Al-Jazeera America staffers have formally voted to unionize, after the company refused to voluntarily recognize their union request. Now the company is challenging the right of some employees to be in the union. Liberal media at work!
Al-Jazeera America is holding a union election today, giving it the dubious distinction of being the first company in the new wave of media organizing not to voluntarily recognize its employees’ request for a union. Womp womp.
Editorial staffers at the liberal news site ThinkProgress have voted to unionize, marking a half-dozen media unions announced this year.
Leftfield Entertainment is the reality TV production company behind shows like “Real Housewives of New Jersey” and “Pawn Stars.” Leftield’s bosses really, really do not want their employees to unionize—as the lengthy email below will attest.
A tiny group of Target employees in Brooklyn have pulled off what no Target employees ever have before: they’ve formed a union.
You may love your job. You may love your boss. But if your boss has a problem with you getting the money you deserve, then the friendly boss is not your friend.
School was scheduled to start Wednesday for more than 50,000 Seattle students, but they’re all staying home or heading back to day camps because Seattle Public Schools has asked teachers to work longer hours, with less recess, for a minimal increase in pay. The teachers, who have gone six years without even a…
The last union coal mine in Kentucky, a state where workers fought and died for the right to organize, has closed, the Associated Press reports. Patriot Coal had announced the closing of its Highland Mine, which employed about 400 hourly workers, late last year.
Co-working startup WeWork has laid off all but 15 of the 150 people it subcontracted to clean its 17 New York City offices, just a few months after those workers started organizing to join a union. Gothamist reports the workers’ contract with WeWork expired on Sunday, and when they came to work Monday, they discovered…
Over the past few months, a wave of unionization has swept across new media. On Friday, the media union movement got its first official enemy. Now writers get to find out who is a friend, and who is just a friendly-looking man with his hand in your pocket.
Jonah Peretti, the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, is a big fan of labor unions—as long as they come nowhere near BuzzFeed. According to BuzzFeed reporter Cora Lewis, Peretti told employees this week that “I don’t think a union is right for BuzzFeed,” citing the fact that BuzzFeed is structured more like a tech startup…
Upworthy bet millions of venture capital dollars that progressive values are the ultimate viral content. But after being forsaken by Facebook and facing layoffs, we’re told the site’s left-wing leadership has successfully fought off a staff unionization drive.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that writers at Williamsburg-based Vice Media have voted to unionize:
Duquesne is a Catholic University in Pittsburgh with nearly 10,000 students. The school’s adjunct professors would like to unionize. Conveniently, Duquesne does not believe Jesus would be in favor of that.
