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Bo McCurry’s union tried everything. Cutting wages to $12 an hour. Higher health costs. Letting in an automated assembly line. None of it kept the light-fixture plant open in Sparta, Tennessee. It's off to Mexico.
A year after President Obama signed his health care reform with strong support from the labor movement, advocates of a single-payer system might be tempted to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” Labor Campaign for Single Payer activists gathered in D.C. to assess their progress.
More than a thousand rallied in Madison yesterday to relight and escalate protests against Governor Scott Walker and the state’s continued attacks on Wisconsin workers.
With slick promotion reminiscent of Silicon Valley product rollouts, SEIU persuaded convention delegates three years ago that call centers were essential to “high quality member representation.” The results haven't lived up to the hype.
Retail cleaning workers and community allies ended a 12-day hunger strike against the Supervalu grocery chain Thursday. The workers, members of a Minneapolis worker center, called off the action when religious leaders and elected officials said they'd press management for a solution.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle can’t stop talking about government deficits and the national debt. Do these twin issues actually threaten our national well-being? There’s a two-part answer: No, not much. Yes, a little, but there's a fix.
When a union hotel worker accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, the reverberations went beyond one rich man's legal woes. Many hotel workers are coming forward with their stories of sexual abuse, aided by UNITE HERE.
A CWA business agent visiting family in Peru was surprised to find well-educated and well-paid doctors and teachers waking up early to rally on behalf of striking bus drivers. Why aren't Americans in the habit? Well, it starts with us. Bring a little Lima (or Wisconsin) to your hometown.
The race to lead the Teamsters is on. The first woman candidate to run for president, longtime Teamsters for a Democratic Union leader Sandy Pope, announced in May that she had enough votes to get on November’s ballot.
Seventy thousand teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca struck, demanding better funding for their students. They oppose a scheme that will reward educators for teaching to the test, too, in the biggest actions since 2006.
Two hundred activists found some answers in the tactics, strategies, tools, and sources of inspiration shared at the Labor Notes Troublemakers School last week in Chicago.
Vermont activists celebrated Thursday as the governor signed the nation’s first bill authorizing health care for all residents as a human right—but said they'd need to redouble their efforts, to maintain forward momentum.
Three days after statewide protests and lobbying by California teachers, Governor Jerry Brown earmarked an additional $3 billion for education--a result of many months of massive protests and lobbying across the state.
A Wisconsin judge ruled today that the infamous “budget repair” bill that would undermine public employee unions in the state was passed illegally. State senate Republicans pushed the bill through March 9 without advance public notice, she said.
As the Arab Spring movements for democracy sweep the Middle East, union members in Bahrain are among those calling for reforms. They’ve held two general strikes, and the government has responded with a violent crackdown.
