Labor Policy & LawThe NLRB and Your Rights: What Every Worker Should Know
Most American workers have powerful legal protections they've never heard of. I don't mean that in a vague, motivational-poster way.
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Labor Policy & LawPrevailing Wage Laws: How They Protect Workers and Local Economies
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.
Workers & the EconomyThe Most Common Minimum Wage Myths — And What the Data Actually Shows
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Seventeen years. No adjustment for inflation, no adjustment for productivity, no adjustment for the fact that a gallon of milk costs 40% more than it did back then.
Workplace SafetyThe Hidden Dangers Inside Food Processing Plants
Every piece of chicken breast wrapped in plastic, every hot dog sealed in a package, every bag of frozen shrimp sitting in your grocery store's freezer section passed through a facility where someone risked their hands, their lungs, and sometimes their life to get it there.
Workplace SafetyHow Unions Reduce Workplace Injuries and Save Lives
The single most effective piece of safety equipment on any job site isn't a hard hat, a safety line, or a pair of steel-toed boots. It's a union card. That's not rhetoric.
Workplace SafetyWorkplace Safety Essentials Every Worker Should Know
Workers who get hurt on the job often knew something was wrong before it happened. They saw the frayed cable, smelled the chemical leak, noticed the missing guardrail. They just didn't know they had the legal right to say something about it, or they feared retaliation if they did.
Union OrganizingTeachers' Unions and the Fight for Public Education
Every political faction in America claims to care about kids in classrooms. But when you look at who actually shows up to fight for smaller class sizes, livable teacher pay, and school buildings that aren't falling apart, it's the same group every time: the teachers union.
Workers & the EconomyWho Belongs to Unions? A Demographic Breakdown
The stereotype is a white guy in a hard hat. It's been the default image in every stock photo, every newspaper illustration, every political ad about organized labor for decades. But the actual union statistics tell a completely different story.
Workers & the EconomyUnion Apprenticeship Programs: Building Careers in the Trades
A four-year college degree costs the average American student around $110,000 in tuition and fees. A union apprenticeship costs zero. You get paid from day one, graduate debt-free, and walk out the other side with a credential that employers will fight over.
Workers & the EconomyWorker Democracy: What It Means and Why It Matters
Most people accept a strange contradiction without thinking twice. You live in a democracy. You vote for your representatives, debate public policy, and expect a say in how your community runs. Then you walk into work and surrender all of that.
Union OrganizingHow the Teamsters Are Organizing the Supply Chain
Every package you order passes through roughly a dozen pairs of hands before it reaches your door. The workers behind those hands — the forklift operators, the dock loaders, the freight drivers pulling 14-hour shifts — are the invisible backbone of the American economy.
Union OrganizingTech Workers Are Unionizing — Why Silicon Valley Is Organizing
The most anti-union industry in America is becoming one of its most active organizing fronts. That sentence would have gotten you laughed out of a San Francisco coffee shop a decade ago. Software engineers making $200,000 a year don't need unions, the thinking went.