black workers

  • Common Ground on the Kill Floor: Organizing Smithfield

    Organizing the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was a bruising 16-year battle, the fight brought together African American, white, and Mexican immigrant workers, who were able to find common ground despite the company’s attempts to use racial division and immigration enforcement to try to defeat them.

  • Restaurant Workers Launch Multi-City Campaign to Transform Low-Wage Industry
    Paul Abowd
    Feb 4 2010 - 11:26am

    The Restaurant Opportunities Center has launched workplace justice campaigns in four cities aimed at flipping the low-wage, high-discrimination industry.

  • Two Years after Katrina Workers Center Organizes Day Laborers in New Orleans

    Matt Olson

    In a modest office in the central business district of New Orleans, two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Workers Center for Racial Justice organizes the city’s guest workers and day laborers. . . .


    Yes
  • Viewpoint: Unity Is Achieved by Confronting Differences, Not Avoiding Them

    Paul Bigman, Lynne Dodson, Mary Ann Schroeder, and Lonnie Nelson

    While we certainly agree that labor must continue our coalition work on globalization, we have concerns with some of the views in Russ Davis’s April Viewpoint...

    Yes
  • New York District Attorney Investigates SEIU Local 32B-J Staff "Volunteering" on Mark Green Campaign

    by Freda Coodin

    On November 13 the Manhattan District Attorney subpoenaed the Service Employees International Union Local 32B-J to hand over documents, after the DA was notified of possible violations by a member and dissident leader, Paul Pamias.


    Yes
  • Immigrants Find High-Tech Servitude in Silicon Valley

    by David Bacon

    When Kim Singh left India to become a contract worker in Silicon Valley, he thought he would find a good job in the electronics industry. Instead, he found a high-tech sweatshop.


    Yes
  • Telephone Workers Fight Discrimination at Ameritech

    Kim Moody

    Backed by their union, members of Communications Workers of America Local 4100 in Detroit have been fighting discriminatory practices at Ameritech, the Chicago-based telephone company that serves much of the midwest. At the center of the fight is a rank and file organization of African American technicians and service representatives known as AAA-EE (Triple A, Double E), which stands for An Alliance of Ameritech Employees for Equality.


    Yes