workers centers

  • Sudden Business Closures in Chicago Prompt Wage Theft Fights
    Jerry Mead-Lucero
    Feb 13 2012 - 11:25am

    Two Chicago worker centers are fighting for hundreds of laid-off workers left in the wake of sudden business closures, still owed back pay. Advocates say such mass firings are not uncommon.

  • Facing Funding Shortfalls, Worker Centers Keep Organizing

    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    Just as worker centers are reporting an increase in calls and drop-ins, and ripe potential among members, some are facing funding shortfalls that jeopardize their work. . . .


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  • Chinese Labor Activist Brutally Assaulted in Shenzhen

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    Workers’ rights advocates are calling on the Chinese government to investigate a ruthless November 21 knife attack on a prominent labor activist in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in southern China.

    Shenzhen labor activist Huang Qingnan was stabbed November 21. This is not the first attack on Huang. In 1999, then a rank-and-file activist in a food factory, Huang was permanently disfigured when acid was thrown on his face while he slept in the factory dormitory.

    Huang Qingnan works for the Dagongzhe Migrant Workers Center, a small group that counsels workers on their legal rights. The center has helped low-paid factory workers file hundreds of claims for injuries and unfair dismissals. Employers have been held liable for large amounts of severance pay, and it is assumed that an employer is behind the attack.

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    Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:00pm

  • 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. . . .


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  • Unions May Have Foothold in Wireless Industry Telephone Strikers Curb Verizon's Culture of Stress

    Kim Moody

    After a convincing demonstration that strikes are not some outmoded tool of the past, 87,000 telephone workers at Verizon Communications have new contracts. The agreements provide the unions with a strategic foothold to organize the new wireless communications industry. And they place new restrictions on the kind of life-dislocating, family-unfriendly policies such as forced overtime that corporations like to impose in the name of flexibility.


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