lockout

  • Quebec Steelworkers Face Mining Pariah
    Jocelyn Desjardins
    May 24 2012 - 1:10pm
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    In a town of 30,000, when 8,000 demonstrate, it does not go unnoticed.

    In the small community of Alma in southern Quebec, unions gathered on March 31 for a solidarity march to denounce the lockout of 780 aluminum workers. They came from from all over Quebec and Canada and from a dozen countries where the multinational mining giant Rio Tinto has installations.

  • SEIU 1199 Protests Connecticut Nursing Home Lockout
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 31 2012 - 11:57am

    Connecticut nursing home workers are making it personal for a scofflaw employer who’s locked them out of their jobs, seeking big takeaways. Members of Service Employees 1199 protested at the "institute for justice" their boss founded.

  • Ontario Caterpillar Workers Locked Out for Refusing Half Pay
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 30 2012 - 1:00pm

    “They issued an ultimatum, I wouldn’t call it bargaining,” said union negotiator Bob Orr. Caterpillar, despite $4.9 billion in profits, is trying to force 50 percent wage cuts by locking out 465 skilled locomotive builders.

  • Toronto Mayor Set to Lock Out City Workers
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 24 2012 - 12:30pm

    Toronto’s mayor wants to privatize a raft of city services and to clear the way, he's taking on the largest public sector locals in Canada. Counting down to what looks like a lockout February 5, unions are scrambling to make their case to city residents.

  • After Union Bails Out Cooper Tire, Company Locks Workers Out
    Mischa Gaus
    Dec 16 2011 - 10:20am

    Steelworkers locked out at a Cooper Tire plant in Ohio are raising the alarm as scabs move in to start building tires. The union is incensed by the lockout, which comes after big concessions and a USW-backed tariff.

  • Campaign Accelerates To Recall Wisconsin Governor
    Jane Slaughter
    Dec 15 2011 - 12:39pm

    Wisconsin unionists say a copycat attack on Machinists is one more reason to recall Governor Scott Walker. Petitioners have gathered 507,000 signatures ahead of a mid-January deadline, almost enough to force a recall vote.

  • 'Occupy Wall Street' Links up with Locked-Out Teamsters

    Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.

  • Sugar Workers Bitter over Lockout

    Locked-out sugar beet workers, their families, and supporters turned out in big numbers August 11 to say they want to work—but not on the terms offered by American Crystal Sugar.

    ACS locked out more than 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers August 1, two days after they rejected deep concessions by 97 percent.

  • Verizon Strike: As Billions Roll In, Workers Walk Out
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 8 2011 - 6:12pm

    At Verizon locations throughout the Northeast, 45,000 workers started walking picket lines Sunday. “We’re on strike for our bargaining rights, just like Wisconsin or Ohio,” said CWA President Larry Cohen.

  • Sotheby’s Locks Out Union Art Handlers, Again

    Sotheby’s auction house closed its doors Saturday to its 43 unionized art handlers, members of Teamsters Local 814. The lockout is its second in a decade, but this time, the union (now led by a reform slate) is ready.