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Category: Economy and Inequality

Starbucks union members and their supporters, including baristas who have just walked off the job, effectively closing a local branch, picket in front of the store, February 28, 2025 in New York City. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Posted inWorking People

This new model for worker organizing could supercharge today’s labor movement

by Maximillian Alvarez May 15, 2025May 15, 2025

Less than 10% of American workers are now unionized. To reverse decades of decline and bring millions of new workers into the labor movement, unions need to embrace the worker-to-worker organizing model.

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U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), accompanied by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), speaks during a news conference following a House Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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‘We need calls now!’ Republicans slip nonprofit killer bill into tax package

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Photo of Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu—a mother of four and small-business owner who is a member of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and is Te-Moak Shoshone and Washoe by blood—walking near the sacred Indigenous site at Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada. Still image from TRNN/Ricochet Media/IndigiNews documentary report “Mining the Sacred: Indigenous nations fight lithium gold rush at Thacker Pass” (2023) by Brandi Morin and Geordie Day.
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REI's flagship New York store stands in Lower Manhattan on January 25, 2022 in New York City. Workers at the outdoor company's SoHo location have filed to hold an election to unionize. If voted in, this would be REI's first union and employees would be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Inside the campaign to disrupt the REI board elections

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A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say

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‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

by Maximillian Alvarez April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
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Hands Off! Trump-DOGE backlash packs DC

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
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