Workers

Politico - Across the country, labor is having a moment: Historic United Auto Workers wins (and some losses) in the union-resistant South, Amazon factory organizing, Hollywood’s SAG-AFTRA strike and Starbucks workers’ union fight have dominated headlines this year. ‘I am riding that wave and loving every minute of it,’ Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of union workers, tells Women Rule. As waves of labor activism sweep the country, women of color are leading union growth, while union women in construction and manufacturing are raising labor and safety standards for all workers. Within unions—spaces once largely dominated by white men—leaders say they are pushing women of all races and men of color to take on leadership roles and incentivizing women to join previously male-dominated industries

Newsweek - Millennials have been criticized at their jobs since they first entered the workforce, but now the generation is behind a new controversial workplace trend: "quiet vacationing." Forget quiet quitting. Nearly four in 10 millennial employees said they've taken time off work without telling their managers, according to a Harris Poll. Millennials were far more likely to engage in the practice, taking full-on vacations without their bosses ever finding out, compared to the general population at 28 percent. Meanwhile, only 24 percent of Gen Z and Gen Xers admitted to it, and only 18 percent of baby boomers.