Did you know that the increase in immigrants into the U.S. correlates to the decrease in union membership over the past several decades? According to the CATO Institute, between 1980 and 2020, union membership sank from 40% to 11%, and immigrants were responsible for nearly 30% of that decline. Per CATO, immigrants have a lower…

We all know that one Amazon warehouse voted to go union in Staten Island, New York last year. Have you heard about the other warehouses where union organizing never got off the ground? After the Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) announced it would organize workers in Kentucky. This was ALU’s first attempt…

Tomorrow, I head south for Spring Break. Baseball is life to my son. We have tickets to baseball games almost every day. I wish I could tell you where I will be and could meet some of you while in your area, but emails like this keep me from doing that. So do the threatening…

The Nissan Plant in Smyrna, Tennessee faces yet another union election as unions continue to try to organize workers in the South. But this election comes with a twist. The previous elections at Nissan have not been close. Workers in Smyrna rejected a plantwide union for the UAW in 1989 and 2001, while Nissan workers…

Independent unions are popping up everywhere. What are they, and why are they the favored approach to Gen Z’s union organizing efforts? Independent Unions are having their day as many workers opt to create their own, grass roots union. We’ve seen them started at Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Home Depot, Starbucks, Lululemon, and others retail and…

The PRO Act is back. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-VT., the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will reintroduce the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act – as you may remember – would make gaining union recognition easier by changing a lot of long-established laws intended to…