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The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data broken down by occupation, metropolitan area, and industry across roughly 800 occupational profiles updated annually, all free to download.
Employees at Google DeepMind's London office have voted to unionize and asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives, citing opposition to the AI lab's contracts with US and Israeli militaries, according to WIRED. The workers delivered t
Going viral on social media has wrecked more organizing campaigns than any union-busting law firm. The standard advice for unions entering the digital space tells organizers to build a following, grow a hashtag, and let the algorithm do the work.
A coalition of Oregon educators and garment workers across five Asian countries launched a campaign Friday demanding Nike sign a legally binding agreement to restore tax payments funding public schools and guarantee living wages throughout its supply chain, according to Women's Wear Daily. The "Just
The UAW's 2025 Organizing Conference devoted an entire session to a question the labor movement has struggled with for decades: why do campaigns with strong worker support on paper still lose elections?
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More than 34,000 apartment building workers in New York City moved toward strike authorization on April 18 as their union contract approached expiration at midnight on April 20, according to Prism News.
"After they fired me, my employer withheld my last pay. They said I owed them for sponsorship costs." That's Kathleen, a care worker whose story was documented by Citizens Advice in the UK.
"I got hired at Starbucks because a friend got fired and nobody did anything about it. That's when I realized: you can't organize a workplace from the outside. You have to be in it.
"We spent $40,000 on a new platform, and six months later, our stewards were still texting each other on their personal phones to track grievances.
Maria Gonzalez, a warehouse steward in Northern California, waited three weeks for her union rep to call back before her contract expired. Her local had operated on a pure service model for more than a decade. Dues went in, and a staff representative was supposed to handle everything else.
The most effective union organizer I ever watched work spent less than a third of her time talking to people at their workplace. The rest? She was at school board meetings, church potlucks, community health fairs, and neighborhood association gatherings.
