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Minimum wage, prevailing wage, labor legislation, and executive orders.
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Oklahoma voters cast ballots today on State Question 832, a measure that would raise the state's minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to $15 by 2029, according to KGOU. The ballot question would decouple Oklahoma's wage floor from the federal minimum, which has remained unchanged since 2009,
The anthracite coal strike of 1902 ran 163 days, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and became the first major dispute where a president mediated instead of sending troops. That pattern (federal action only after economic crisis) defines the entire arc of the American labor movement.
Every major rollback of American labor rights has exploited the same structural weakness that Senator Robert Wagner left in his 1935 statute.
A collective bargaining agreement contract is the legally binding document that sets wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions between a union and an employer, protected under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.
Signed authorization cards, not secret ballot elections, are now the National Labor Relations Board's preferred method for establishing union representation. The NLRB's August 2023 Cemex decision made majority sign-up the primary recognition path.
The Davis-Bacon Act requires contractors on federal construction projects to pay locally determined wage rates. It has done so since 1931.
Amazon warehouse workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island filed their first unfair labor practice charge months before the April 2022 election that made them famous.
Every union digital organizing platform stores names, addresses, phone numbers, employer information, and authorization signatures. A breach of that data hands management a complete map of your organizing committee. These six rules protect your members and your campaign.
BA Union, formed in 2022 at Bernheimer Architecture in New York, remains one of fewer than five unionized private-sector architecture firms in the United States.
In Malaysia, achieving official government recognition for a new trade union representing migrant workers takes between five and seven years, according to research from the Malaysian Trades Union Congress. The average guest worker visa in that country lasts two to three years.
The United Kingdom has removed the cap on paid time civil servants can dedicate to union activities and duties, allowing union representatives to spend up to half their working hours on trade union work while remaining on the government payroll, according to the Daily Mail. The shift eliminates the
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has committed to repealing the state's right-to-work law if elected governor, promising union leaders he would sign legislation ending the 1953 statute during his first term, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
