Troublemakers Blog
October 07, 2011 /
Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are waging a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades. Bank workers have shut down 8,328 banks in the country’s 26 states.
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October 05, 2011 /
After nearly a year locked out of their jobs, porters and maintenance workers at a massive New York housing complex see a ray of hope. A Labor Board complaint described the lockout as “inherently destructive” of workers’ rights, making the 70 Service Employees members optimistic they will prevail.
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September 30, 2011 / Jane Slaughter
The union’s convention this week, in Pittsburgh, showed the UE spirit alive and kicking despite the hammering it’s taken along with the rest of the labor movement.
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September 29, 2011 /
Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.
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September 28, 2011 /
September 27, 2011 /
Philadelphia’s Troublemakers School saw classrooms full of union activists eager to work together and share. For many of the 125 participants, the opportunity to communicate with each other about their experience as organizers in the workplace was rare and important.
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September 14, 2011 /
As United Auto Workers talks with the Detroit 3 go down to the wire—contracts expire at midnight tonight—workers are wondering what hidden surprises may await them in a tentative agreement. At Chrysler, skilled trades workers are finding big problems concealed in the last concessions contract, as management thins their numbers to the bare minimum and gets »
September 09, 2011 / Mark Brenner
In closing his jobs speech last night, President Obama challenged Congress to imagine where the U.S. would be if their predecessors had balked when asked to think big. Unfortunately for the president, the comparisons he made only served to highlight how puny his jobs proposals are.
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September 08, 2011 / Mischa Gaus
Nursing home workers in the Northeast say the owner of their chain cheated them and used the proceeds to fund an institute of justice at New York University.
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