Here's a great Jeopardy question for any blue-collar union worker:
It was the biggest corporate entity for its industry in the nation and lost huge amounts of revenue to rivals who used low-wage, non-union labor in the United States to provide a cheaper product. A revolving door of top executives squandered billions by acquiring and investing in business ventures that fell flat...
"Health care for all!" is the Service Employees International Union's new battle cry, and the push for universal health care seems indeed to have become one of this massive union's top priorities...
The rapidly growing number of unorganized auto plants in the US South challenges the UAW as its tries to hold on to its density in the industry. Asian and European manufacturers now operate 10 assembly plants in the region employing close to 50,000 workers-all non-union...
The future of the labor movement depends on the volunteer organizers at Toyota and workers like them in the growing number of auto plants without a union...
Workers at Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky have been pounding the union drum for 16 years and counting. For the workers, progress has been slow but steadily improving. Toyota is feeling the heat. Union supporters have been fired and the number of temporary replacements is skyrocketing...
As in most auto plants, the skilled trades at Toyota have a different set of problems from production workers and therefore different reasons for organizing a union. A blurring line between the two groups of workers also provides some very similar reasons to join...
At a recent Delegates Assembly meeting, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten opened by announcing that the UFT (the American Federation of Teachers affiliate representing New York City’s public school teachers) was an 'organization of professionals.' Her words stuck in my ear...
The 25th Biennial California State AFL-CIO Convention, held in July in San Diego, handed a rebuke to national-level foreign policy leaders of the AFL-CIO. By a unanimous decision, over 400 representatives of the state’s almost 2.5 million organized workers—approximately one-sixth of the AFL-CIO’s total membership—adopted resolutions against the war in Iraq and urged “an immediate end to the US occupation,” and decided to explore affiliation with US Labor Against War (USLAW)...
Honduran teachers won a month-long strike this summer that involved massive demonstrations, violent confrontations with police, arrests of union activists, and accusations that teacher “terrorists” were attempting to destabilize the government. The teachers struck to defend public education, their union, and their contract from policies being shaped not only by the government of President Ricardo Maduro, but by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and foreign corporations...
