Workers

Yes! - Since the pandemic, your news feed has likely been filled with content about labor organizing: unions, strikes, and workers’ rights. We haven’t seen this level of coverage since the stomping days of AFL-CIO in the ’80s. Whether it’s Starbucks, Amazon, REI, or graduate students, forgotten laborers are rebelling, demanding health and safety measures (especially because we’ve deemed them “essential workers”). A majority of Americans support this fight against big business: 71% support labor unions, the highest proportion since 1965. Unfortunately, right now 90% of these laborers fighting for union recognition will fail when faced with employer resistance. For the past half-century, union opponents have steadily chipped away at the rules protecting workers’ rights—in courts, in laws, and in our American culture. We’ve reached the point where there are many barriers to winning a union election. Even though the National Labor Relations Board changed a landmark rule to protect union rights in August 2023, organizing rights are not fully protected and can be changed on the whim of the administration in power.