contract campaign

  • Steelworkers at Oil Refiner Tesoro Ready for Strike
    Patrick Young
    Apr 30 2012 - 10:49am

    The oil refiner Tesoro took a $40 million loss after an explosion last year that claimed seven lives. Management is trying to recoup the money by forcing workers to pay for its mistakes, leading Steelworkers to prepare for a strike.

  • Unions Struggle to Regroup As Verizon’s Hits Keep Coming
    Pat Fahy
    Apr 4 2012 - 12:09pm

    Seven months after last August’s bitter Verizon strike, the company's attack continues relentlessly. Hundreds of layoffs in New Jersey are underway as union leaders and rank-and-file rabble-rousers debate how to regain leverage.

  • Winning the P.R. War in a Contract Campaign
    Randy Robinson
    Dec 14 2011 - 3:47pm

    How does a union win a public relations war in the mainstream media? An Ontario union trained members, emphasized internal mobilizing, and communicated directly with the public to spread a campaign that communities need good jobs.

  • Illinois Faculty Unions Resist University Attacks
    Nancy Traver
    Nov 24 2011 - 10:53am

    At colleges around Illinois, faculty are under siege and looking to their unions for support. They're organizing, striking, resisting cuts, and defending contingent adjunct professors. “It’s the ripple effect,” said a faculty union president.

  • California Grocery Workers Win Settlement, Wait for Details
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 22 2011 - 12:38pm

    Southern California grocery workers have wrested a tentative agreement from their three profitable employers. The union said the settlement “protects your health care” but did not release details.

  • Hotel Workers Turn Up Heat on Stubborn Hyatt
    Jenny Brown
    Jul 22 2011 - 1:02pm

    The summer heat wave got even hotter on the picket line in front of the Chicago Park Hyatt yesterday when hotel managers turned winter heat lamps on their striking workers. They were striking for the day as part of a wave of pickets and civil disobedience hitting Hyatt hotels in nine cities.

  • Locked Out at Illinois Uranium Processing Plant, Steelworkers and Community Wait, Nervously
    by Jerry Mead-Lucero
    Sep 24 2010 - 11:21am

    Steelworkers who produce nuclear-power fuel were locked out in June by the Honeywell corporation. Now scabs are doing the dangerous, specialized work.

  • Readying for Tough Bargaining, Members Stoke the Fires at Verizon
    Pam Galpern
    Aug 6 2010 - 10:24am

    Hundreds of workers rallied in Boston, signaling the beginning of the one year countdown to expiration of the Verizon East contract, covering about 50,000 workers from Massachusetts to Virginia. The rally was only one piece of recent rank and file activity, which has been on the upswing lately among members and local leaders at Verizon.

  • Civil Disobedience Raises Stakes in Nationwide Protests against Hyatt
    by Catherine-Mercedes Judge
    Jul 24 2010 - 12:35pm

    Hundreds of hotel and restaurant employees and supporters were arrested around the country Thursday in coordinated civil disobedience against the Hyatt Corporation.

  • 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.