At the Texas AFL-CIO, a Changing of the Guard in a Time of Growth
“No one has done more than Rick Levy for the modern-day labor movement in Texas.”
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Aren’t Reporters Supposed to Challenge Authority?
The historic newspaper strike in Fort Worth raises questions about the future of Texas journalism and puts union members through 24 days of hell.
Unions Fight to Make Good Jobs Out of Texas’ Solar Boom
Labor organizers in the state are fighting to ensure workers are skilled tradespeople—not just exploited temps.
Austin Nurses Win Largest Hospital Union in Texas
National Nurses United organizers at Ascension Seton Medical Center just delivered a major victory for the Texas labor movement.
Alamo Drafthouse: Far from Fantastic
The nationwide dine-in cinema chain remains popular despite accusations of union busting and allegations of sexual assault.
Report: Google Fiber Subcontractors’ Record Shows Value of Union Labor
“High-speed reliable broadband is a social justice issue, it’s a climate justice issue, and it’s an economic justice issue because of the workers it takes to do it.”
The Battle of Beaumont
For nearly 10 months in the once-mighty union bastion of southeast Texas, ExxonMobil locked out hundreds of refinery workers in an effort to force an embattled 80-year-old Steelworkers union local to give in—or get out.
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In San Antonio, Police Reformers Square Off with the Cops’ Union
A proposal to end collective bargaining, on the ballot May 1, aims to spur police accountability in Texas’ second-largest city.
The Year Newspaper Unions Roared Back to Life in Texas
At the beginning of 2020, there were zero union papers in the Lone Star State. Soon, it seems, there will be three.