Author: Joe Maniscalco

Online Retail Giant Is Accused of Heavy-Handed Anti-Labor Activities in Albany, N.Y.

How the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Echos a Great Labor Struggle Nearly 150 Years Ago

It’s Not Enough to Win an Election, Now It Has to Do the Hard Work of Representing the Workers

‘Gen U’ See Corporations Running Lives and Ruining the Planet; Seek Reform of Labor Law

But Labor Board Sides with the Company over Controversial Mailbox for Union Ballots

Starbucks Patrons Lead the Way, but Other Companies See Customers Support Employees Organizing

Stalled in the Senate, the Bill Would Ease Union Organizing Efforts Working men and women are rising up, risking all and taking collective action against unchecked exploitation in the era of covid-19 — and Senate Democrats had better catch up.  That’s the message frustrated organizers wrapping up a fruitless 14-day, 3,126 journey across the country advocating for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) delivered to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York City doorstep earlier this month.  “Workers are leading the way right now, but we need more,” Our Revolution National Field Organizer Mike Oles told supporters…

Second Effort Seeks to Get Around Company’s High Turnover of Employees New York City Amazon workers attempting to organize the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island are calling on labor regulators to find new remedies to existing rules that make unionizing inside the company’s massive warehouses next to impossible.  The Amazon Labor Union re-filed for a union election on Wednesday with nearly 3,000 union cards signed. The National Labor Relations Board decided last fall that the union had to withdraw an earlier petition because it failed to reach the 30% threshold needed to trigger an election.  “The NLRB decided that…

Labor Calls It the ‘Most Significant’ Worker Legislation Since the Great Depression,’ but It’s Frozen in the Senate

And They Get Neither from an Economy that Exploits Labor and Rewards the Already Wealthy