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Unions’ Top-Heavy Salaries a Drag on Organizing »

March 15, 2010 | Mark Brenner

According to data filed under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), the number of union officials and staff earning high salaries has exploded in recent years.

What's happening at the conference? »

March 15, 2010 | Tiffany Ten Eyck

The conference kicks off at 1pm on Friday April 23, with the opening main session at 7:30 pm. Some pre-conference meetings, including the Latino pre-conference at 10 am, begin earlier. Closing session ends at 2pm Sunday, April 25.


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Baltimore Worker Center Says Tourist District Shouldn't Grow on Poverty Jobs »

March 12, 2010 | Tom Kertes

Poverty conditions for workers in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor are threatening to become routine. That doesn't make them tolerable, said a worker center. They're pursuing living-wage agreements by targeting developers.

Drug Tests Followed by Steelworker Suicides: How Should a Union Defend Members? »

March 10, 2010 | Mischa Gaus

As Steelworkers at the Granite City Works outside St. Louis finally got back to work after a long idle, management surprised them with a new drug-test policy that's wreaked havoc.

'Toxic' Health Bill or No, Labor's 'Medicare for All' Activists Dig In »

March 10, 2010 | Jane Slaughter

When I told friends I was on my way to the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer conference, held last weekend, they all said, “I bet that’ll be a bunch of long faces.” I predicted not—these were people who’d always known the health care reform debate in Congress would come up short. Yet the 124...

Just Say ‘No’ to Drug Tests — Then Bargain »

March 10, 2010 | David Cohen

Under the guise of concern for employees’ safety and health, employers demand the right to conduct drug and alcohol testing. Most use it as just another hammer to hold over workers’ heads. Employers often try to divide the membership on this issue, but we can turn this around and fight. What...

Bus Drivers Win First Contract After Strike and Lockout at University of Alabama »

March 9, 2010 | By Jake DaSilva

Bus drivers at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa won a first contract after they were locked out last week following a one-day strike. The deal secures a $1.50 an hour raise and employment security, key sticking points that led to the strike. The drivers endured nine months of bargaining...

Anger at Insurance Companies Pulls 1000s to Protest »

March 9, 2010 | Paddy Lehane

As health insurance lobbyists holed up in the Ritz-Carlton behind dozens of police in riot gear, thousands of health care activists surrounded the downtown D.C. hotel in a peaceful but pointed demonstration of anger and support for health care reform.

Women's Day March in San Antonio Says “Ya Basta” to Abusive Treatment of Workers »

March 9, 2010 | by Chris Kutalik

International Women's Day often gets short shrift in the United States, its places of birth, but in San Antonio, women's groups are raising its profile—and a little hell—while bolstering a hotel organizing drive.

Mourning Students Interrupt Politics as Usual in Washington State »

March 8, 2010 | Evan Rohar

Picking up on more March 4 creativity: 75 students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, organized a funeral for public education March 4 in concert with the massive protests in California schools and on other campuses around the country. After the wake, they proceeded into the...

New York School Closings Move the Angry to Action »

March 8, 2010 | Megan Behrent

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's decision to close at least 19 schools in the city has not been well received. An unprecedented number of schools were slated for “phase-out” in late 2009 by the Department of Education—a gradual closing that takes several...

Chicago Teaching Assistants on Edge of Strike: ‘No Waiver, No Labor!’ »

March 5, 2010 | by Matt Muchowski

Graduate student employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago are threatening a strike to protect tuition waivers and to put a floor underneath graduate employees’ meager earnings.

March 4 Day of Action Ripples Through California and Beyond »

March 5, 2010 | Paul Abowd

Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California’s embattled public education system on March 4. College students and campus workers joined forces with K-12 teachers and students for the day of action.

E-Z Firings of Call Center Unionists »

March 4, 2010 | Mischa Gaus

“You’re the ringleader—the main problem.” That’s what Frank Buonvicino said managers told him as they fired him Monday. Buonvicino and 13 other union supporters at a Staten Island call center that handles complaints and inquiries for the E-Z Pass toll system were called in one by one and fired...

California Activists Set for Day of Action to Defend Public Education »

March 3, 2010 | Marcel Paret

Sights are set on a March 4 Strike and Day of Action to resist business as usual: layoffs, fee hikes, and program cuts in a call for expanded federal education funding, open admissions, and democratic schools.

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