Fifteen thousand Canadian auto parts workers staged noon-hour rallies at work October 27, protesting companies' demands for wage cuts and two-tier wages. Citing previous concessions, officials said, "We're drawing the line."
For 40 years anti-union business groups and media bloviators have undermined private sector unions. They're now determined to destroy public workers' unions.
Teachers laboring under slashed budgets in crowded classrooms, under intense pressure to raise student test scores, now face a fresh challenge—from Hollywood's pro-charter school documentary, “Waiting for Superman.”
Two hundred auto workers picketed October 16 outside the locked gates of their union’s headquarters in Detroit, protesting an agreement to let General Motors pay half wages at a suburban assembly plant.
Home health workers and childcare workers will lose their unions if the Right to Work foundation has its way in court. This long-time foe of unionization denies their status as workers.
Domestic workers are specifically denied bargaining rights under New York state’s labor law, but childcare givers, housekeepers, and elder care workers gathered today in downtown Manhattan to begin a campaign to change that.
Ask airport security workers who runs the Transportation Security Administration, and the “good old boys’ club” comes up a lot. Two unions are vying at TSA, campaigning for bargaining rights so they can square off in an election.
Are you thinking about running for local union office? If you’re like most candidates, you start by asking “Who can I get to run with me?” It seems like a good question. But it’s the wrong way to start your campaign.
Close to 3.5 million workers took to the streets of France Tuesday, protesting the government’s plans to cut public pensions. The demonstrations included disruptive strikes among key groups of workers, which some unions want to continue indefinitely.
Sandy Pope, a local president in New York, announced she will run against James Hoffa for the presidency of the Teamsters, in a three-way race. Pope criticized Hoffa for bargaining weak contracts, and said the union needs to re-organize trucking.
