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Workers Shine a Spotlight on Employer Abuses in Music City »
July 13, 2017 | Sonia SinghMarches by immigrant workers are not an everyday sight in Nashville, Tennessee. But 50 hotel workers and supporters took to the streets June 20 to make visible the conditions facing low-wage workers in this city.
Call Center Unions Build International Connections »
June 30, 2017 | Dan DiMaggioOne big issue in May’s three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company’s offshoring of jobs.
How We're Surviving Right to Work: Letter Carriers Keep Numbers up with Shop Floor Action »
June 28, 2017 | Alexandra BradburyPostal unions, like all federal employee unions, are open shop. That means workers can get the benefits of union representation while opting out of paying dues.
Transit Workers Take the Driver's Seat in 'Right-to-Work' Tennessee »
June 23, 2017 | Chris BrooksAt Labor Notes trainings I hear lots of reasons why union members think their co-workers aren’t involved: They don’t understand labor history. They don’t appreciate all the union has done for them. They watch Fox News. They’re scared or apathetic.
Striking Wireless Workers Make Their Voices Heard »
June 22, 2017 | Dan DiMaggio“Retail workers are basically told their entire lives that they’re never going to have any power in any way, in any facet of their lives,” says Will Blum, who works at an AT&T Mobility store in Boston.
A Strike against Squeezing Profits from Kidney Patients »
June 15, 2017 | Alexandra BradburyOn June 12 Teresa Schloth, a Brooklyn dialysis nurse for 32 years, walked out on her first-ever strike. She and her co-workers are battling a billion-dollar corporation that’s trying to wring greater profits out of kidney patients by skimping on staffing and shifting jobs out of the unions.
Addicted to Profits: Workers Locked Out at New Jersey Drug Treatment Facility »
June 6, 2017 | Dan DiMaggioOne hundred ten addiction treatment beds are empty, and 120 employees without a paycheck, after for-profit American Addiction Centers locked workers out of its Lafayette, New Jersey, facility.
