DemDaily: The Right To Strike
January 12, 2023 On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments in Glacier Northwest v. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a case that threatens the...
Posted January 12, 2023
DemDaily: Strike Derailed
December 2, 2022 President Joe Biden this morning signed a bill to force a tentative rail labor agreement, averting what would have been the first national railway strike in 30 years. The...
Posted December 2, 2022
DemDaily: Biden Derails Strike
September 19, 2022 The country’s major railroads and rail union leaders struck a tentative deal Thursday, narrowly avoiding a strike that could have wreaked havoc on the nation’s...
Posted September 19, 2022
DemDaily: A New Era at the AFL-CIO
July 5, 2022 Delegates to the 29th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention, on June 12, elected Liz Shuler to a full four-year term as President of the country’s largest labor federation. Shuler...
Posted July 5, 2022
DemDaily: Organizing America
April 4, 2022 Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize under the Amazon Labor Union on Friday, in the first successful United States organizing effort in the retail...
Posted April 4, 2022
DemDaily: Biden’s State of the Union
March 2, 2022 By all accounts, President Joe Biden’s State of The Union (SOTU) address delivered a straightforward and human conversation with the American people. A post-SOTU CNN poll of US...
Posted March 2, 2022
DemDaily: DNC Unionizes Amid Resurgence in Labor Movement
January 7, 2021 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is now a union shop. On January 4th, the staff at the DNC in its national headquarters in Washington, DC, voted overwhelming to join Service...
Posted January 7, 2022
DemDaily: The New Labor Movement?
December 14, 2021 Last week, a small Starbucks in Buffalo, New York became the coffee giant’s only company-owned shop to unionize. The victory for Starbucks Workers United was 35 years in...
Posted December 14, 2021
DemDaily: Striketober
October 20, 2021 On October 5th, more than 1,400 Kellogg workers from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Tennessee went on strike following a dispute over wages, health and retirement benefits...
Posted October 20, 2021
DemDaily: Manufacturing Towns: Where We Lost
October 8, 2021 A report released this week reveals how the political parties, and most particularly Democrats, have missed “the biggest electoral earthquake of the last decade” in...
Posted October 8, 2021
