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Strikes involving 14,000 workers in San Francisco hotels and Atlantic City casinos are shaking up the tourism industry on the East and West coasts, as part of a concerted effort by UNITE HERE to line up contracts to expire at or around the same time within industries. With this strategy, the union hopes to set the stage for greater bargaining power for workers whose job sites are scattered across the country but often part of the same multinational chains...

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In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a health care crisis in the United States. Two symptoms of this crisis are understaffed medical centers and health care workers who are overworked and underpaid...

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Supporters of an innovative city-wide union in Montpelier, Vermont are redoubling organizing efforts as the project enters its second year...

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In 1969 the rock band Zager and Evans sang, “In the year 5555, Your arms hanging limp at your side. Your legs got nothing to do. Some machine doing that for you.” In almost every industry, automation and technology have “de-skilled” workers—bringing some reality to these 35-year-old lyrics. . . .

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In the right hands rules can be powerful tools. Just-in-time inventory—which demands that no more stock be available on site than is immediately required for production—makes the production system exceedingly vulnerable to “work-to-rule” strategies. . . .

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Four years after a southern-based reform group sprung up out of the campaign to defend the Charleston Five, a movement to democratize and strengthen the International Longshoremen’s Association has spread throughout the entire union...