layoffs

  • Steelworkers Protest US Steel’s ‘Wholesale Indifference’

    Ask a union member what’s the bedrock of a union contract, and most will answer “seniority.” Long established as the way to keep the manager’s brother-in-law from getting the good jobs, companies have learned to live with taking turns and following recall lists.

  • DC Teachers Could See Shakeup in Union's Spring Election

    An outspoken critic of D.C. schools Superintendent Michelle Rhee has entered the race to lead the Washington Teachers Union (WTU). Nathan Saunders, the union’s current vice-president, says the May election is a chance for teachers to take a different direction in contract talks with Rhee, which have dragged on for three years.

  • Coast to Coast Solidarity as Tough Verizon Talks Start
    by Mischa Gaus
    Feb 1 2010 - 7:41pm

    Verizon workers were out in force today, rallying on both coasts as California bargaining teams entered what promises to be difficult contract talks. They're battling layoffs and looking to halt givebacks started at AT&T.

  • Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service
    David Yao
    Nov 3 2009 - 1:13am

    The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.

  • Harvard Workers Fight Layoffs
    Joshua Koritz
    Nov 1 2009 - 1:05am
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    In spite of a massive endowment—still valued at $26 billion despite the stock-market slide—Harvard has laid off between 200 and 500 clerical, technical, and janitorial workers, many of them union members. The school is hinting at another round of layoffs this winter.

  • Tens of Thousands March Against Puerto Rico Layoffs
    José A. Laguarta Ramírez
    Oct 23 2009 - 12:20pm

    Tens of thousands of workers were joined by supporters on October 15 in Puerto Rico, marching through San Juan to protest the layoffs of nearly 25,000 public employees.

  • Housekeepers' Giant “Hope Quilt” Puts Hotel Job Injuries in Spotlight
    Chris Kutalik
    Oct 16 2009 - 5:38pm

    Hotel housekeepers are on a seven-city tour with a gigantic “hope quilt” that memorializes injuries on the job. It's also a symbol of their determination to rally union and non-union hotel housekeepers against harsh working conditions and workplace injuries.

  • Puerto Rico to Lay Off 17,000; Splintered Labor Movement Scrambles to Respond
    José A. Laguarta Ramírez
    Oct 6 2009 - 4:38pm

    Governor Luis Fortuño announced in late September that nearly 17,000 public employees in Puerto Rico will lose their jobs by November, in addition to the nearly 8,000 laid off over the summer.

  • Despite Layoffs, Bailed-Out Banks Hire Contractors on Visas

    Mischa Gaus

    Bailed-out banks are driving down tech workers’ wages and stoking anti-immigrant hostilities by replacing entire departments of local techies with foreign-born workers on visas—all while laying off tens of thousands of workers. . . .


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