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California Nurses Beat Kaiser Win 18 Union-Selected "Patient Care Cops" »

May 9, 1998 | Martha Gruelle

After a hard-fought, very public, 18-month campaign for a union contract that protects nurses’ jobs and patients’ care, the California Nurses Association declared victory in late March. CNA leaders tentatively approved a settlement with the giant HMO Kaiser Permanente covering 7,500 nurses in...

Mexican Rail Workers Strike Against Privatization »

April 9, 1998 | Dan La Botz

In one of the most important labor events in Mexico in recent years, hundreds of railroad workers struck the Pacific North railroad in late February and early March. Beginning as an illegal wildcat, the strike disrupted the operations of some major corporations including the Ford Motor Co.

Sweeney in Mexico A New Direction in AFL-CIO Foreign Policy »

March 9, 1998 | Dan La Botz

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's visit to Mexico in January represented a landmark in U.S.-Mexican labor union relations and established a new direction in AFL-CIO foreign policy. While Sweeney met with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, the real news was his meetings with independent labor...

Reformers Lose Close TWU Election »

February 9, 1998 | Steve Downs

The incumbent officers of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union managed to hang onto their jobs in December. But the New Directions reform slate is challenging the election results in the 33,000-member union.


By November, it was clear that the race would be close. Many transit workers...

UAW Strike Against Johnson Controls Targets Vast Non-union Auto Parts Sector »

February 24, 1997 | Jim West

"No Justice, No Seats! No Justice, No Seats!" shouted the crowd standing in the driveway...

Leaders of Hormel Strike Arrested; International Holds Trusteeship Hearing »

May 1, 1986 | Phil Kwik

For four hours on April 11, 400 members and supporters of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local P-9 shut down the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota by blocking the main gate to the building. They were dispersed only after police dressed in riot gear began firing tear gas into the...

Roundup of Undocumented Workers Angers Union Organizers »

June 1, 1982 | Dan La Botz

"Operation Jobs," the roundup of undocumented workers carried out in May by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), brought anger and frustration to union members and officials in Chicago. But it has also brought a concern to find ways to de-fend undocumented workers.

Teamster Steelhaulers Show Muscle In Three-Week Wildcat Strike »

March 19, 1979 | Tiffany Ten Eyck

Some 10,000 Teamsters covered by the National Master Freight Agreement did not return to work when the official strike/lockout ended on April 10. They are the steelhaulers—a group which has caused headaches for the carriers and union officials before.
Most steelhaulers own their own rigs, but...

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