Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema side with GOP to vote against the renomination of Democrat Lauren McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board.
America’s unions have had a banner year. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years. Their victory followed a seven-week strike that brought the planemaker to its knees.
Striking Amazon and Starbucks workers in California and elsewhere have long pushed for union contracts. The Trump administration is unlikely to be on their side.
After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in Trump's second term.
When Donald Trump enters office on Jan. 20, he will immediately start seizing control of the government by firing holdovers from Joe Biden’s administration and replacing them with Republican partisans.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected Democratic President Joe Biden's nomination of a U.S. labor board official for a new term, giving President-elect Donald Trump a chance to cement Republican control of the agency soon after taking office.
Former United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl lays out a “block and build” strategy for labor to defeat the rising right-wing attacks on workers and democracy in the coming Donald Trump administration.
While most Senate Republicans have scrambled to display as much loyalty to Trump as possible, a handful have made clear that they are willing to defend the body’s “advise and consent” role. Among the senators to watch are moderate Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and incoming freshman Sen. John Curtis of Utah.
Strikes at Amazon and Starbucks for union recognition and better contracts coincide with holiday season to pressure companies. Momentum grew post-COVI
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.
Sinema made history for Democrats, then took a moderate approach that left them disappointed and the Senate more divided.
Donald Trump has also given some signs that he might be friendlier to labor during his second term compared to his first term.