Carpenters Local 281

Why Labor Unions Are Dying

Labor unions live in the past and ignore how they are not helping most workers in 2021. Common sense shows they need to adapt or will keep losing members.

More and more workplace discrimination cases are closed before they’re even investigated.

Strike Fund Help, organized by Jeanette Gale

Hello, our Local union 14919 has been on strike for 5 weeks due to an unfair contract. We have been st… Jeanette Gale needs your support for Strike Fund Help

Why Younger Generations Are Embracing Labor Unions

Young adults have a unique opportunity to contribute to labor unions and, in turn, contribute to change in many different sectors.

Millennials Love Labor Unions, New Study Finds

Millennials love labor unions. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, millennials’ views of unions have improved in recent years, with more than half of respondents telling pollsters they have a favorable opinion of labor organizations.

Labor Unions Remain Steadfastly Opposed To Trans-Pacific Trade Measure

Labor unions argue a deal would erode jobs and benefit corporations. Experts say those concerns are legitimate, but companies that are more engaged in global trade also pay higher wages.

Are millennials saving labor unions? Membership increasing in Ithaca, nationally

Labor unions are pretty much one of the things millennials actually haven't killed so far.

Labor Unions: Can They Work for Academia?

In response to the issues facing adjunct professors, some are now looking to a union contract to protect them. One research study reports that as many as 386

Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions?

For May Day, we talked to young workers—in tech, retail, food service, and more—about what brought them to the labor movement.

Breaking the Chains: Can Labor Unions Organize Retail Workers?

Retail is the nation's largest employer. But in recent decades, retail unionism has taken a steep fall.

Labor union signs petition asking to keep extra unemployment benefits

Labor union signs petition asking to keep extra unemployment benefits

Labor Unions and "Protected Concerted Activity:" What Private Employers

Employers, it seems, can't catch a break these days.<br>They build businesses. They take risks. They face increasing supply costs, supply-chain problems, inter...

Labor unions need to find a new bargaining chip

What is it that they can offer to employers to win better wages and working conditions?

How do Utahns feel about labor unions? New poll has answers

Even among those who approve of organized labor, some worry unions can be a ‘tool that gets used incorrectly or abused’

What Unions Do: How Labor Unions Affect Jobs and the Economy

What do unions do? The AFL-CIO argues that unions offer a pathway to higher wages and prosperity for the middle class. Critics point to the collapse of many highly unionized domestic industries and argue that unions harm the economy. To whom should policymakers listen? What unions do has been studied extensively by economists, and a broad survey of academic studies shows that while unions can sometimes achieve benefits for their members, they harm the overall economy.

Builders, labor unions open doors for small contractors

Hire360 provides entrepreneurs, particularly minorities and women, the tools to manage a feast-or-famine business.

Is Twitter the architectural intern's unofficial labor union? Exposing the reality behind unpaid...

Social media has been accused of being many things: a time-waster, an intelligence-leveler, a privacy-invader. However, in the field of architectural employment, social media has oddly become a kind of virtual worker’s union, helping to expose unethical hiring practices. A recent leaked...

When a labor union gets upset about job-stealing goats

If the fact that a product is half free of charge leads you to exclude it from competition, how can its being totally free of charge induce you to admit it into competition? Either you are not consistent, or you should, after excluding what is half free of charge as harmful to our domestic industry, exclude what is totally gratuitous with all the more reason and with twice the zeal<br>Make your choice, but be logical; for as long as you ban, as…

Can labor unions help close the black-white wage gap?

After nearly half a century of declining union membership, collective bargaining may be primed for a comeback.

The rise and fall of US labor unions, and why they still matter

How big business stifled one of the most crucial institutions of the US economy.