More than 70,000 striking grocery workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, have been on the line for over six weeks in a strike that is becoming a war of attrition...
On the morning of November 8, amid the clean, tree-lined streets and coffee shops, restaurants, and movie theaters of Ann Arbor, passers-by could see a sight that most of the college town's residents weren't used to: a picket line...
Sandy Pope is currently Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 805 in Queens, New York. Her local represents warehouse workers, truck drivers, office workers, and blue-collar university workers. Approximately 25% of the membership in her local are women...
Paul Babin, Jonathan Harris, Gerardo Reyes Chávez, Claire Beyer, Jason Wallach
Labor Notes asked various labor activists to send us a report of their experience protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas talks which took place in Miami during the week of November 17, 2002. Trade ministers were meeting to try to strike a deal that will expand the current "free trade zone" (currently Canada, United States and Mexico under NAFTA) to include all the rest of the 34 countries in Central and South America. . . .
How many times has this happened in your shop or department? A new supervisor or manager takes over and announces that he/she is "not going to let the union tell him/her how to run this business..."
