
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.
Since 1954
Labor organizers in the state are fighting to ensure workers are skilled tradespeople—not just exploited temps.
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.
A proposal to end collective bargaining, on the ballot May 1, aims to spur police accountability in Texas’ second-largest city.
At the beginning of 2020, there were zero union papers in the Lone Star State. Soon, it seems, there will be three.