Organizing

  • Farmworkers Push Tobacco Giant Reynolds to the Table
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    May 24 2012 - 11:55am
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    The perseverance of Farm Labor Organizing Committee activists in North Carolina paid off in early April when Reynolds American finally agreed to meet with the union. FLOC has been demanding since 2008 that the tobacco giant discuss working conditions for tobacco pickers.

  • Restaurant Workers Set Sights On Walmart Wannabe: Darden
    Jenny Brown
    May 24 2012 - 11:21am
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    Restaurant workers organizing with the Restaurant Opportunities Center have trained their sights on their most ambitious target yet—a giant chain that wants to become the Walmart of sit-down dining.

  • Cablevision Workers Lead MLK Day March as Disparities Fuel Union Drive
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 16 2012 - 10:05am

    Cablevision's Brooklyn technicians will lead a Martin Luther King Day march with the Reverend Al Sharpton to protest the company's racial disparities and prepare for a January 26 union election vote.

  • Hershey’s Walkout Exposes J-1 Guestworker Scam
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 25 2011 - 5:31pm

    Every year the U.S. State Department grades countries on human trafficking, but it would do well to look at its own J-1 visa program, which one organizer called “the ultimate captive guestworker program.”

  • Can Big-Box Retail Be Organized?
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 16 2011 - 12:34pm

    Target workers in Valley Stream, Long Island vote on union representation tomorrow. The election is the first at any of Target’s 1,755 stores and a win would crack the solidly anti-union wall surrounding big-box retail.

  • AT&T Bid For T-Mobile Boosts Union Drive
    Mischa Gaus
    May 3 2011 - 1:15pm

    As mostly organized AT&T looks to scoop up union-resistant T-Mobile, the Communications Workers are fast at work attempting to organize its call centers and retail stores. T-Mobile workers worry they’d lose jobs first following the $39 billion mega-merger.

  • As Hospitals Go ‘Lean’ and Squeeze Workers, Unions See Potential for Organizing
    Kim Moody
    Mar 15 2011 - 8:44am

    Today’s hospitals are big business, run like factories and clustered in growing corporate systems. Health care is a growing, consolidated industry with billions flowing into its coffers and desperately in need of skilled labor. It’s the kind of organizing target U.S. unions have not seen for some time.

  • Airport Screeners Election Kicks Off
    Jenny Brown
    Mar 9 2011 - 7:51am

    The much-maligned airport security workforce will finally have a chance to vote on a union and bargain collectively. The election starts today and runs through April 19. A February decision by TSA administrator John Pistole set the stage.

  • UAW’s Organizing Guidelines Undercut Workers’ Rights
    Roy J. Adams
    Jan 24 2011 - 10:00am

    The United Auto Workers’ “Principles for Fair Union Elections” legitimize ideas labor should be challenging. The guidelines put collective bargaining and its authoritarian alternative on equal footing, and accept that unions must acquire majority support to bargain. Neither idea has any basis in international labor rights.

  • UAW Says It Will Go ‘All In’ To Organize Foreign-Owned Auto Plants
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 24 2011 - 9:18am

    The United Auto Workers announced a $60 million plan to organize foreign-owned auto plants. UAW President Bob King said it's an “all-in hand. If we lose, we’ll die quicker. If we win, we rebuild the UAW.”