Labor Notes Archive

January, 2009

Labor’s 'Medicare for All' Advocates Test Strength
Auto Workers Put a Working Face on the Detroit Auto Show
Pre-Convention Battle: Detroit UNITE HERE Local Seized
How Republic Workers Occupied Their Plant
Chicago Teachers Organize Against Privatization
Viewpoint: Reunification without Democracy--What’s the point?
SEIU Launches Takeover of United Healthcare Workers-West
Service Employees Vote to Split United Healthcare Workers-West, Members Call for Disaffiliation
Viewpoint: They're Closing In

December, 2008

Chicago Sitdown Strike Produces Win for Workers, Not Banks
Faced with Concession Demands, Unions Search for Ways to Resist
Financial Crisis Shouldered by City Workers
D.C. Teachers Resist District’s ‘Slash-and-Burn’ Style
Smithfield Wins a Union after 16-Year Struggle
Understanding and Defending Past Practices
New York’s Transit Local Recovers Dues Check-off, Accepts Strike Prohibition
Auto Workers Told to Take Concessions, Abandon Retirees
Cutting Wages Won't Solve Big Three's Problems

November, 2008

Handling Insubordination Grievances
Supporters of ‘Medicare for All’ Prepare for Health Care Showdown
Chicago Unions Seek Better Ties After Clash over Immigrants
Viewpoint: Don’t Stop Union Conversations on Race
End of the Road: If the Auto Industry is Dead What does that Mean for Workers?
New Teacher Programs Chip Away at Job Stability
Smithfield Workers To Vote on Union
First-Ever Layoffs Loom at Postal Service

October, 2008

Puerto Rico’s Teachers Beat SEIU Raid
Card Check: Can It Organize the Unorganized?
Sympathy Strikes & the Law: Is Solidarity Legal?
A Financial Meltdown 30 Years in the Making

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