Following the lead of University of California graduate workers, teaching assistants and research assistants at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania went on strike Tuesday morning. The Temple University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) announced on Twitter, “After bargaining for over a year, Temple still refuses to meet our demands of a

Several Florida school districts are at a standstill with the state’s teachers unions over pay increases. The state allocated $800 million to increase teacher salaries across the state, but school districts say unions are holding things up. In Hillsborough County, Superintendent Addison Davis noted that the union, as the bargaining

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler recently appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the disappointing findings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). “People are continuing to lose ground because workers don’t have the power they need to negotiate better conditions and wages on their own,” Shuler said. “You can do

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently issued a report on union membership, which found that overall union membership rates have declined to “the lowest on record.” BLS is an agency operating within the Department of Labor (DOL), which is headed by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. The agency releases this

Workers at the University of Arizona (UA) are demanding a large pay raise, to the tune of $25 an hour, by 2025. The United Campus Workers of Arizona (UCW), which also represents workers at Arizona State University (ASU), is calling for people to sign their petition to university administrators to

A month after Congress and President Joe Biden ended a potential railroad strike, a coalition of over sixty public and private labor unions are voicing their opposition to the deal. Delegates from the Western Mass Area Labor Federation (WMALF), which claims to represent 60,000 workers in the region, voted unanimously