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Minimum wage, prevailing wage, labor legislation, and executive orders.
49 articles
Section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act requires both employers and unions to bargain in good faith over wages, hours, and working conditions. That three-word legal phrase, "in good faith," is the engine behind every collective bargaining agreement in the country.
Every contract the United Auto Workers won at General Motors in the postwar decades had a second audience: Ford and Chrysler.
Bernheimer Architecture in New York employs fewer than a dozen people. In 2024, this tiny firm became the site of the first ratified collective bargaining agreement at a privately owned U.S. architecture practice in roughly half a century.
Fifty-two percent of newly certified unions don't reach a first contract within a year of winning their election. Nearly a third still don't have one after three years.
Too many union leaders treat digital infrastructure as an IT problem to hand off to whoever on the executive board "knows computers." That's a mistake. Your union's data obligations are written into federal law, and the penalties for noncompliance are real.
Every worker in America has the right to report a safety violation, file a wage claim, or join a union. Every single one. But when immigration enforcement enters the workplace, those rights evaporate in practice, even if they still exist on paper.
A meatpacking plant in rural Nebraska lost 30% of its workforce in a single week. Not because of layoffs. Not because of automation. Because a wave of immigration executive orders made it impossible for experienced, legal TPS holders to keep showing up to work. The plant scrambled.
The federal government stripped minimum wage and overtime protections from roughly 3 million home care workers, and most Americans didn't notice. No front-page headlines. No cable news panels.
The top 100 donors to federal races in 2022 outspent millions of small donors combined by roughly 60 percent. That single statistic should make every working person furious.
Most people hear "net neutrality" and assume it's a fight between Silicon Valley giants and telecom companies. A squabble between billionaires over bandwidth. That framing is wrong, and it's been wrong for over a decade.
Most American workers have powerful legal protections they've never heard of. I don't mean that in a vague, motivational-poster way.
Every dollar the federal government spends on a construction project carries a choice: will it lift the local workforce, or will it undercut it? That's the fundamental question behind prevailing wage laws, and the answer shapes the livelihoods of millions of construction workers across the country.
