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
DemDaily: Shutting Down Hollywood
October 6, 2021 On Monday, 60,000 members of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), who work in television and film production across the country, voted to strike for...
Posted October 6, 2021
DemDaily: PRO Act Perspective
September 7, 2021 On March 9th, the US House of Representatives, by a vote of 225-206, passed H.R. 842 — the most significant revision of labor law since the passing of the original National...
Posted September 7, 2021
DemDaily: Labor’s Day
September 6, 2021 For most people Labor Day weekend signals the unofficial end of summer, the last trip to the beach or the beginning of the school year. It is important to be reminded, however...
Posted September 6, 2021
DemDaily: Labor’s New Leadership
August 23, 2021 In a historic move Friday, the AFL-CIO elected its new President, Liz Shuler, making her the first woman to lead the nation’s largest labor federation. The AFL-CIO is an...
Posted August 23, 2021
DemDaily: The Loss of Labor’s Best. Richard Trumka 1949-2021
August 5, 2021 The labor movement and, indeed, all who fight to champion democracy, lost a legend this morning with the unexpected passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Trumka, 72, who...
Posted August 5, 2021
DemDaily: Protecting The Right To Organize
March 17, 2021 On March 9th, the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 842, the most significant, pro-worker revision of labor law since the passing of the original National Labor Relations Act...
Posted March 17, 2021
