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Undocumented Latino immigrants in Switzerland are battling many of the same issues that immigrants face here, and they’re organizing to demand creative solutions to common problems.
Rarely have labor-backed Democrats targeted the right of public employees to collectively bargain. That’s now changing. In several states, Democrats are betting they can cut into public employee rights and still win union backing.
Two years ago the bus drivers and mechanics of Teamsters Local 597 were about as disconnected as they could be from our union. Negotiations with the Chittenden County Transportation Authority in northern Vermont were going on, but no one was seriously involved.
Retail cleaners and community allies will begin a hunger strike Saturday to pressure the Supervalu grocery chain. A Minneapolis worker center seeks fair wages and conditions for workers who clean its stores late into the night.
California teachers declared a state of emergency and launched rallies and lobbying to dramatize the threat to schools and services posed by the state’s deep budget crisis. A no-business-as-usual action led to 27 arrests.
Monitoring technology lets managers see what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, and how long it takes. They analyze this data to figure out how to cut corners and eliminate jobs. They are monitoring us because they can—and we haven’t stood in their way.
As the Auto Workers union heads into bargaining, the two-tier wage structure at the Big Three companies angers both those at half-pay and workers who say it creates a division in the ranks. The two-tier system splits workers into a bewildering array of categories.
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, a heroic effort to end racial segregation in the South. What lessons can today’s movements learn from the Freedom Riders' courage, daring tactics, and rejection of business as usual?
Sick of bankers and corporate honchos making out like bandits, 15,000 people marched through Wall Street yesterday. They rallied together against staggering layoffs and budget cuts.
Noisy pickets by the NYSNA nurses union responded to $5 billion in Medicaid cuts by New York legislators, which hospitals are trying to pass on to nurses. In the Bronx, nurses say Montefiore hospital looks to save by understaffing.
The Chicago Teachers Union's reform leadership faces its steepest challenge yet: an anti-teacher union measure backed by billionaire-funded lobby groups and pushed by Democratic lawmakers.
“Excluded workers” called on the AFL-CIO to let them in—and got the beginnings of a welcome. At their conference in New York this week, 250 members and organizers from the nine sectors of the Excluded Workers Congress vowed to “expand the human right to organize and collectively bargain.”
A Missouri labor educator was vindicated Monday after almost losing his job in an attack by right-wing video hoaxster Andrew Breitbart. After a vigorous campaign by the United Association for Labor Education, the university backed down from its initial statement to Don Giljum that he would not...
Graduate workers across the University of California have voted to transform their union. The Academic Workers for a Democratic Union slate swept all 10 executive board positions and nearly 60 percent of Joint Council positions in United Auto Workers Local 2865. The local is the largest...
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder marched through Benton Harbor with 500 protesters and their thundering chants escorting him. They protested a new law that threatens local democracy.
