Troublemakers Blog
August 10, 2011 /
What is it like to work in an auto plant these days? The company mantra is to do more work with fewer people and less money. My co-workers are less than optimistic about winning back the concessions we all made to keep Chrysler in business.
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August 09, 2011 /
At times a P.T. Barnum-like spectacle conducted under the thumb of staff, the assembly representing the National Education Association is also an impressive demonstration of a democratic decision-making body.
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August 05, 2011 /
In a narrow vote on Tuesday, locked-out Steelworkers at the Metropolis, Illinois, uranium conversion plant accepted a contract containing a host of concessions sought by their employer for more than 13 months.
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August 03, 2011 /
About 15,000 rallied in the South Korean port city of Busan last weekend to support a woman welder whose lone sit-in atop a shipyard crane has lasted 208 days.
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August 02, 2011 / Mark Brenner
The Senate handed Republicans a complete victory this afternoon, in a crisis they manufactured, then exploited, to wring $2.1 trillion in cuts from the federal budget over the next decade.
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August 02, 2011 / Steve Early
Telephone workers at Verizon have voted to strike if no agreement is reached this weekend. But would it be wiser to stay on the job and strike selectively over grievances?
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August 01, 2011 / Mark Brenner
Sotheby’s auction house closed its doors Saturday to its 43 unionized art handlers, members of Teamsters Local 814. The lockout is its second in a decade, but this time, the union (now led by a reform slate) is ready.
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July 28, 2011 /
The attempts to crush teacher unions legislatively in Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere have so far had only limited success. The enemies of teacher unions have been much more effective at weakening unions discreetly, through “education reform.”
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July 25, 2011 / Adrian Montgomery
Outside the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit, a group of angry people stood together to let Senator Carl Levin know he better not vote for the real death panels: cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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July 21, 2011 /
Longshore workers by the hundreds blocked a mile-long train July 14 to prevent an anti-union company from moving grain through the port of Longview, Washington. Earlier, members used a pickup truck to tear down a fence and then occupied the grain terminal, blocking employees from working. About 100 union members, including leaders, were arrested for criminal »