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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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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...
New cars are shiny because of special and toxic chemical that's added to their paint jobs...
How many times has this happened in your shop or department? A new supervisor or manager takes over and announces that he/she is "not going to let the union tell him/her how to run this business..."
On the morning of November 8, amid the clean, tree-lined streets and coffee shops, restaurants, and movie theaters of Ann Arbor, passers-by could see a sight that most of the college town's residents weren't used to: a picket line...
Sandy Pope is currently Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 805 in Queens, New York. Her local represents warehouse workers, truck drivers, office workers, and blue-collar university workers. Approximately 25% of the membership in her local are women...
Labor Notes asked various labor activists to send us a report of their experience protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas talks which took place in Miami during the week of November 17, 2002. Trade ministers were meeting to try to strike a deal that will expand the current "free trade...
Close to 1,000 Freedom Riders set off from ten cities across the country to converge on Washington, D.C. on October 2 and Queens, New York on October 4 to demand an end to the abuse heaped on immigrants. Tens of thousands of union and community members rallied for the grand finale...
For two years now the strike weapon has been in decline as a tactic in the United States...
D. David Beckman now works in the electronics department of a Fred Meyer department store in the Seattle area, where he makes less than 25% of the $40 to $45 an hour he earned as a tech writer with Microsoft...
