unionizing your workplace

18 posts

Workers in the game industry turn to unions for protection from rampant layoffs

The number of workers in the video game industry laid off so far this year is on the brink of surpassing the more than 10,000 job losses suffered across the industry in 2023. As companies shed their workforces, union organizers and game workers are turning toward union organizing as

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez

Unionizing small nonprofits brings unique challenges and benefits

Tight budgets and managers unfamiliar with unionizing can present hurdles, but unionizing offers workers opportunities to build solidarity and improve workplace conditions and culture

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8 Min
By: Sravya Tadepalli

Join an established union or start a new one? These are the differences

What are the benefits and drawbacks of joining established unions versus building and organizing independently?

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8 Min
By: Sravya Tadepalli

How to support workers as a conscious consumer

Consumers can’t always trust progressively branded companies, and boycotts are only useful if the workers have asked for one

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4 Min
By: Annie Faye Cheng

Independent, locally focused unions are expanding the playing field for workers’ rights

Union membership is bringing in more workers from traditionally non-unionized fields, but even successful unionization movements still face roadblocks

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8 Min
By: Sravya Tadepalli

Workers at popular Rockefeller Center restaurant vote against unionization

After facing a campaign plagued with alleged union-busting efforts, 55.3% of the workers at Lodi voted against a union

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5 Min
By: Annie Faye Cheng

The South has a new union—and workers have Black women to thank

Black women nearing retirement age who work in the fast food and home care industries have helped pave the way for the Union of Southern Service Workers

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10 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

In 2022, the workers’ rights movement continued to grow

In 2022, unionization efforts swept across multiple industries as workers continued to build power through collective organizing, but there is much further to go

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2 Min
By: Lara Witt

Unions offer graduate student workers a stronger platform to secure living wages and reasonable workloads

Universities depend on graduate student workers’ labor but won’t provide adequate pay without the pressure of collective bargaining efforts

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7 Min
By: Sravya Tadepalli

How workers in Hollywood took on an industry giant and won

After filing discrimination lawsuits and facing hostile management, Chateau Marmont workers won their right to unionize

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5 Min
By: Frances Nguyen

Putting a face to a movement: Trader Joe’s unionization

Trader Joe’s workers have attempted different unionization strategies across stores but have been met with similar union-busting tactics

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10 Min
By: Helen Li

Workers need their employers to do more than just ‘being better’ than other workplaces

Union organizers press companies to live up to their “progressive” images by supporting workers’ unionization efforts

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10 Min
By: Helen Li

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