Labor Notes Archive

March, 2007

Defeating Employee Free Choice Act Is Top Priority for the Union Busters
Will the UAW Fight Assembly Line Outsourcing Inside Ford's Most Important Plant?
Fighting for Domestic Partner Benefits
Legal Threats, Power Struggle Derail Conductors Strike at Canada’s Largest Railroad
Organizing "Big Boxes" is Big Challenge for Labor
Strategic Drive Takes on California Agribiz Leader
Volunteer Organizers Can Add Muscle To Major Union Recruiting Campaigns

February, 2007

Labor-Community Coalitions That Work
Strategy and Resource Shift Needed: Auto Workers Union Need Organizing Campaign Based on an Army of Member-Organizers
Labor Law Reform Could Turn Tide on Organizing
Don't mourn. . . . As Membership Keeps Sliding, How Can We Organize Our Way Out?
In Health Care Reform Debate, Single-Payer System is Labor’s Only Clear Choice
Memory of 1997 Strike Strengthens Union’s Position: UPS and Teamsters Working for (Very) Early Contract Settlement
Remembering Where Flowers Come from on Valentine’s Day
News Watch

January, 2007

Smithfield Workers Arrested in Immigrant Raids
Viewpoint: Longshore Workers Vote for Port Shutdown: Stopping Union-Busters Means Defying the Law
Call for ‘Stewards Army’ Opens Door for New Labor Activism
Union Leadership Re-Elected with Less than Half the Vote: NY Transit Workers Get Contract They Rejected
Communication Workers Fight Rural Telecom Redlining In New England
Members Write Their Own Plan for Rail Unity: UTU-BLET Merger Proposed
Workers and Unions Fight Back Against 'No-Match' Letters
Dealing with ‘No-Match’ Letters
Smithfield Meatpackers Stay Off Work To Demand Martin Luther King Holiday
Immigrant Workers Buck Long Slide in Meatpacking; Raids Follow as Backlash
Denied Collective Bargaining, North Carolina Public Employees Turn More Militant
Bloated Salaries Limit Organizing, Leave Members Cynical
Pension Showdown Pits Public Employees Against Politicians in New Jersey

December, 2006

Stewards Councils and Community Coalitions
As Goodyear Admits Strike is Hurting, Army Explores Presidential Back-to-Work Order

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