Change To Win

  • Bed Bath and Broke: Warehouse Workers Go for Election
    Mischa Gaus
    May 23 2012 - 4:32pm

    Warehouse workers organizing in key logistics hubs across the country could get a boost from a union vote at a Bed Bath and Beyond distribution center in New Jersey, where immigrant workers filed for a Labor Board election today.

  • California Warehouse Workers Fight Retaliation

    After workers at an Inland Empire warehouse began organizing, their company was fined for breaking the law. But now Walmart's contractor is ending their jobs—and the workers are calling it retaliation.

  • Building Delusions at the Carpenters

    Carpenters President Douglas McCarron is delusional indeed. He’s dismissed the AFL-CIO’s newly chartered carpenters organizing committee and placed faith in his “corporate unionism” approach and a repressive, self-serving regime that destroys the democratic rights of rank and file members.

  • Viewpoint: Reunification without Democracy--What’s the point?

    Tom Leedham

    The decision by some big unions to split from the AFL-CIO and form Change to Win in 2005 was top-down. Local union leaders were not consulted, much less rank-and-file union members. Now leaders at the top appear to be moving toward reunification—again with no involvement of local leaders or members. But neither decision has had much effect on the working men and women who pay the dues. . . .


    Yes
  • The UNITE-HERE Merger: Is It a Step Forward … or Business as Usual?

    William Johnson

    It’s been a few months now since we heard anything from the New Unity Partnership (NUP), the coalition first described here in October 2003. This coalition-composed of the presidents of the Service Employees (SEIU), Hotel and Restaurant Employees (HERE), Garment and Textile Workers (UNITE), Carpenters, and Laborers unions-planned to strengthen the U.S. labor movement by increasing union density sector by sector.


    Yes
  • ‘We Set Ourselves Up to Win’ Strike Success in Santa Cruz

    Paul Johnston

    On September 16, 2,200 clerical, blue collar, and professional workers in the Santa Cruz County chapter of Service Employees Local 415 walked out. Their employer was long committed to substandard wages, and now planning layoffs in response to a fiscal crisis. And there was only one solid pro-union vote on the county Board of Supervisors.

    But though the cards seemed stacked against them, the strikers won the highest raises of any comparable group of workers in the state while producing a harvest of new union activists. How did they do it?


    Yes