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How Workers Took On A Manufacturing Giant—and Won

Jeff Blazek: What Ingredion spends in one month to keep us out here in the street is all of our salaries for one year. Ingredion…

Playing with Players’ Lives: How the NFL Hid a Crisis Killing Athletes

Chris Nowinski: The NFL is an enormous business with more than $11 billion a year in revenue, and the job that they ask people to…

How The Supreme Court Could Soon Destroy The Right To Strike

Narrated by Sharon Block, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Imagine you’re a newly-unionized Starbucks…

Inside A Trader Joe’s Union Contract Bargaining Session

Ava: I don't think Trader Joe's has been bargaining in good faith.  Maeg: The company is purposefully dragging out the process. Jamie: We actually were…

La Colombe Coffee Workers Are Unionizing

Danny Epstein: From probably 9-5 every day our line is out the door, and we are ripping through espresso drinks and draft latte drinks. No…

How Joe Biden Could Stop Shady Union-Busting Practices

Narrated by Bob Funk from the Labor Lab Right now, Starbucks, Amazon and many other corporations are engaged in rampant union-busting — and we have…

Rail Workers Oust Union President Who Backed Labor Deal

In a stunning upset, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the 28,000-member union of railroad workers, has elected a new president. Eddie Hall, a…

Pilots At The Four Largest U.S. Airlines Are Leading An Uprising

[PA Sound] Denis Tajer: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. The first officer and I are on day five and we just came off…

Workers at This Starbucks-Amazon Hybrid Store Are Unionizing

Workers are taking on two of the biggest union-busters in America. Starbucks and Amazon opened a new store together in Times Square where workers are…

Excessive Overtime Is Killing UPS Workers

UPS drivers are revealing the gruesome reality behind your online orders. They say the company is forcing 12+ hour days and constant overtime. UPS's scheduling…

Exclusive: Peet’s Coffee Workers Launch First Union Campaign

Add Peet’s Coffee to the list of unionizing coffeehouse chains. Workers at two Davis locations of the popular California-based cafe chain will submit signed union…

Red Cup Rebellion: Inside The Largest Starbucks Strike Ever

Narrated by Tori Tambellini, Starbucks Union Organizer [On picket]: Good morning! We’re striking! We didn’t think it would come to this. A nationwide strike. 111…