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Québec Aluminum Workers Occupy Plant To Stop Closing »

March 1, 2004 | Marsha Niemeijer

In recent years, workers and unions have found it harder and harder to resist plant closings. But when the world’s largest producer of aluminum, Alcan, announced it was shutting down the Jonquière Soderburg smelter in Arvida, Québec, the 550 affected workers decided that they would not only...

Rank-and-File Teamsters Campaign Against Pension Cuts »

March 1, 2004 | Nicolle Schaeffer

A brewing fight over pension cuts is shaking the ground inside the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). Wide-scale rank-and-file dissatisfaction over cuts in pension benefits last year by the Central States Pension Fund (CSPF) has sparked a member-driven campaign that has challenged...

New York Teachers Fear for Working Conditions as Union Leader Offers Preemptive Concessions »

March 1, 2004 | William Johnson

Mad Cow Fights Privatization »

March 1, 2004 | Sarah Luthens

Guerrilla theatre (or at least cow theatre) came to Franklin High School in Seattle recently during the height of the “mad cow” scare, when a rank-and-file officer from Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 609 in cow costume met with students there during a lunch period.


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Hardship, Dissent, and Questions about Union Strategy- Supermarket War of Attrition Drags Into Fourth Month »

February 1, 2004 | N. Renuka Uthappa

Talks between the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the grocery chains they have been fighting in southern California for four months-Vons/Pavillions, Albertson, and Ralphs-stalled the week before Christmas.


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AFL-CIO Refuses to “Clear the Air” on Foreign Policy, Operations »

February 1, 2004 | Kim Scipes

International-Appointed Trustee Appeals Election Defeat- Philadelphia Service Employees’ Local Elections Become Battleground f »

February 1, 2004 | William Johnson

In Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, a local union is embroiled in a battle over its own democratic processes.


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Viewpoint- Bush’s Guest Worker Proposal: Good for Business, Bad for Workers »

February 1, 2004 | Amy Sugimori

President Bush recently proposed a new temporary worker program, describing it as part of a scheme of “fair and secure immigration reform.” However, as observed by numerous immigrant and worker organizations, this program does nothing to meet the real and pressing needs of the millions of...

Steward's Corner- Member-Organizers Shape Bottom-up Campaign »

February 1, 2004 | Dave Coker

When workers in a union organizing drive take up the cause of building their union from the bottom up and confront management head-on, it can be the foundation for creating democratic and active local unions.


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Freedom Rides Create Local Rallying Point for New York City Immigrant Rights Activists »

February 1, 2004 | Gouri Sadhwani

In their trek across the country this past September, over 1,000 immigrant workers and their allies demonstrated in 116 U.S. cities during the Immigrant Worker’s Freedom Ride demanding equal workplace rights and immigration reform.


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Month Three- California Grocery Strikers Hold Firm »

January 1, 2004 | N. Renuka Uthappa

The southern California grocery strike entered its ninth week as negotiations between United Food and Commercial Workers officials and the three giant grocery chains allied against the union-Vons/Pavilions, Albertsons, and Ralphs-broke down five days after they resumed on December 2.

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Health Care Workers in British Columbia Face Privatization, Sweetheart Contract »

January 1, 2004 | Kaj Hasselriis

Health care workers on Canada’s west coast are getting a taste of “sweetheart contracts” that favor multinational corporations over workers’ rights, and the Canadian labor movement is divided on how to respond.


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Higher Premiums Mean Higher Profits: Why Your Health Care Insurance Is More Expensive »

January 1, 2004 | Milton Fisk

Cost shifting is the name of the game as management grapples with the rising expense of employee health care. Employers are having employees pay more out of pocket through higher deductibles, larger drug co-pays, and higher premiums.


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Service Employees Local 660- Los Angeles County Workers Beat Back Hikes in Health Insurance Premiums »

January 1, 2004 |

Members of Service Employees Local 660 beat back management’s demand to force workers to pay increases in health insurance premiums, after hundreds of worksite protests throughout Los Angeles County and massive rallies in the streets and at the offices of the County Board of Supervisors.

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Grocery Workers Fight Health Cuts and Job Loss to Vendors »

December 1, 2003 | Renuka Uthappa

More than 70,000 striking grocery workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, have been on the line for over six weeks in a strike that is becoming a war of attrition...

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