The pandemic-filled years of 2021-2022 have witnessed an uptick in union organizational activity throughout much of the country. Newsroom workers, university graduate students, art museums security guards, and even relatively “autonomous” gig workers are illustrations of activity aimed at establishing new labor-management relationships.
Frequently fueled by sexual harassment disputes involving, for instance, gaming employees and Alphabet workers, they have been induced to band together, though—at least in the case of the latter group—hardly in sufficient numbers to obtain collective bargaining.
And the well-publicized disputes involving Amazon and Starbucks are support for the proposition that some unions are more active than in the immediate past, the latter campaign providing a tentative sign that the last half-century’s union decline has been stopped if not partially reversed. The prominence of young educated people, as in the Great Depression’s union growth, coupled with the most pro-union president in history, combined with the labor shortage has resulted in a substantial increase in...
The National Board of Directors of the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA) hereby alerts the general public to a growing pattern of impersonation, misrepresentation, and the unau...