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This fall, hundreds of University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) students were taught by faculty who never received the raise or the bonus mandated by the legislature last summer. While most UTK employees received at least a three percent increase in their base pay and a special bonus ranging...

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Young Workers United

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Young Workers United, a multi-racial San Francisco organization of young and immigrant workers, won an historic November victory when they achieved citywide paid sick day legislation. . . .

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Young Workers United (YWU...

Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, was found murdered in the union’s Monterrey, Mexico office on the morning of April 9. He had been bound hand and foot and beaten to death. Circumstances suggest labor contractors may have had him killed. . . .

On the Mississippi coast, cranes are moving again over Navy warships at the sprawling Ingalls shipyards. Half a mile from the sleepy town of Pascagoula, the median at the entrance to the yards where striking workers chanted, sang, and sometimes prayed is quiet, and at the end of the workday a...

“People were just sick and tired of feeling like nobody would pay any attention to them,” said Doris Tuckwiller-Wood, one of 5,000 teachers in 14 different West Virginia counties who went on strike March 14. “We can’t just go back in the classroom and be good little teachers because they threw...

Tens of thousands of auto workers and community supporters marched in the port city of Cadiz, Spain on March 1 to protest the decision of auto parts maker Delphi to close its plant in nearby Puerto Real. The decision, announced February 22, would cost up to 1,600 Delphi workers their jobs. The...

The AFL-CIO has finally endorsed a solution to the health care crisis that looks and sounds a lot like a singlepayer system. A statement released March 6 by the federation’s executive council during its meeting in Las Vegas did not use the phrase “single-payer,” but it heaped praise on Medicare...