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  • Delta Air Lines Workers Soon To Get Fair Vote

    It may soon become much easier for workers in the airline and railroad industries to form unions, and the most immediate impact may come at Delta Air Lines.

  • UNITE HERE Won't Concede to Big Hotels
    Paul Abowd
    Oct 28 2009 - 10:22am

    UNITE HERE has launched another round of contract battles with hotel giants. After civil disobedience actions workers in Chicago and San Francisco authorized strikes, escalating a nationally coordinated “bargain to organize” campaign.

  • Philadelphia Museum Guards Finally Win Their Own Union
    Warren Davis
    Oct 27 2009 - 1:00am

    Seventeen years after security guards at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art lost their union in a Democratic mayor’s privatization spree, they joined students and Jobs with Justice to beat long odds and vote in an independent union.

  • 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.

  • Bargaining in a Recession
    Derek Blackadder
    Jun 23 2009 - 11:52am

    There’s no rocket science to a contract campaign during a recession. But it is different. You can even come out the other side with a stronger union. Here are a few ideas on how.

  • Rite Aid Campaign ‘Poster Child’ for Faltering Employee Free Choice Act

    Author(s):
    Jennifer Sargent

    Excerpt:
    As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union. . . .

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  • Student Labor Week of Action Hits the Streets

    Author(s):
    Matt Abbott, Sameerah Ahmad, and Laura McSpedon

    Excerpt:
    The "Resistance and Recovery" week of action burst with 250 events in early April. As the corporate attack on workers intensifies with the economic crisis, Jobs with Justice and Student Labor Action Project activists took the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination as occasion to push back.

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  • Smithfield Wins a Union after 16-Year Struggle

    Author(s):
    Nichele Fulmore, Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Forging a historic win for labor in the notoriously anti-union South, workers at the nation’s largest hog slaughterhouse won a 16-year battle to unionize their plant in December. . . .

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  • Hospital Organizing Has Slowed, Two Years After Labor Board's Controversial Supervisor Decision

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Joanne Thompson found out the hard way how management is exploiting a loose definition of a supervisor to strip workers of the ability to form unions. She had spent five years as a “charge nurse” at West Houston Medical Center, checking up on medication schedules and juggling workloads for the nurses on her floor, who monitor heart patients....

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  • Is Fighting for Justice at Smithfield Racketeering?

    Author(s):
    Jane Slaughter

    Excerpt:
    Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company’s business practices? Is it a “conspiracy” if advocates call for boycotts, organize rallies, or press for resolutions from elected bodies? Smithfield Foods, the largest producer of pork products in the world, is hoping so, after a lawsuit it filed last October passed an initial court challenge. . . .

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