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New Teacher Programs Chip Away at Job Stability »

November 20, 2008 | Paul Abowd

Graduation rates were climbing to all-time highs in New York City’s alternative schools, where John Powers taught last year, before the Department of Education’s consultants arrived. Citing under-performance, the city closed schools, and chopped some into smaller units, giving them new names....

Smithfield Workers To Vote on Union »

November 20, 2008 | Jane Slaughter

In a surprise settlement, Smithfield Foods dropped its multimillion-dollar racketeering lawsuit against the United Food and Commercial Workers, Jobs with Justice, and the Change to Win federation October 27. The company agreed instead to a set of rules that will govern a vote on December 10...

First-Ever Layoffs Loom at Postal Service »

November 20, 2008 | David Yao

The U.S. Postal Service faces a serious financial shortfall that is accelerating reductions in its workforce and raising the possibility of the first-ever layoffs of career employees. . . .

Puerto Rico’s Teachers Beat SEIU Raid »

October 24, 2008 | Steve Early

By a margin of 18,123 to 14,675 Puerto Rican teachers voted against joining the SEIU-backed SPM (Sindicato Puertorriqueno de Maestros), which is closely aligned with another SEIU affiliate, the Association de Maestros de Puerto Rico, an organization of school principals and administrators.......

Card Check: Can It Organize the Unorganized? »

October 23, 2008 | Kim Moody

Employers do everything in their power to make sure workers don’t get a chance to vote for a union. They flout labor law, making a joke of the familiar National Labor Relations Board procedures where the government’s job is to oversee a “fair fight” election between the union and the boss...

Sympathy Strikes & the Law: Is Solidarity Legal? »

October 23, 2008 |

Author(s):
Robert Schwartz


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I work at a company where the production workers and the technicians are in different unions. The techs' contract runs out this year while ours has a year to go. If the techs call a strike, can the production workers respect their picket lines...

A Financial Meltdown 30 Years in the Making »

October 23, 2008 | Mark Brenner

They break it, and we’re stuck with the bill. In less than two weeks Congress lined up $700 billion to bail out the nation’s bankers, leaving millions of homeowners on the sidelines. . . .

Financial Crisis Socks California »

October 23, 2008 | Paul Abowd

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved $7 billion in cuts in October to help fill a $15.2 billion crater in California’s budget, leveling a broad attack on unions and working people as the world’s tenth-largest economy teeters. Unemployment in California rose to 7.7 percent in August. . . ....

From $2 an Hour, Nashville Carwash Workers Plot a Future »

October 23, 2008 | Garrett Stark

Before the Nashville Homeless Power Project began investigating work conditions for homeless people, Shur Brite Car Wash workers in downtown Nashville made as little as $2 an hour. The carwashers now stand poised to sign an agreement with their employer. . . .

Muslim Workers Demand Time for Prayer at Meatpacking Plants »

October 19, 2008 | Tiffany Ten Eyck

Muslim workers at meatpacking plants owned by JBS Swift in Colorado and Nebraska walked out in September to demand time for prayer and dinner during their holy month of Ramadan. When the company agreed, other workers, largely Latino immigrants, led counter-protests, complaining that the...

Nurses Should Be in Their Own Union »

September 26, 2008 | Marilyn Albert and Ed Bruno

Bronx Nursing Home Workers Win Back Health Care Benefits »

September 26, 2008 | Mark Brenner

Winnipeg Transit Workers Ratify Contract on Third Vote, but Many are Less Than Thrilled »

September 26, 2008 | Chris Rigaux

Port Truckers Step Closer to Shedding Dirty Past »

September 26, 2008 | Paul Abowd

Labor leaders who want desperately to chase the Republicans from the White House are confronting a hurdle in their outreach to members: the question of race. Obama’s record on economic issues, they say, should put him way ahead of John McCain with working-class voters. But will the facts be...

Unions Talk Race as Election Nears »

September 26, 2008 | Jane Slaughter

Labor leaders who want desperately to chase the Republicans from the White House are confronting a hurdle in their outreach to members: the question of race. Obama’s record on economic issues, they say, should put him way ahead of John McCain with working-class voters. But will the facts be...

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