The vote calls attention to growing crisis around catering workers’ wages, healthcare amid a booming airline industry
Twelve workers met in Pittsburgh to form the nucleus of what would become the United Steelworkers.
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Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
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June 13, 2019
Consumer Grocery Co-op Consolidation is Lucrative for Some
TWIN CITIES
Our network of sources and our own research is giving evidence to a dense network of co-op managers and administrators and associated national organizations who protect their own interests in stark contrast to the values of democratic participation imbued with being a co-op “owner.”
June 12, 2019
On Eve of Union Vote, Chattanooga VW Workers Describe Rampant Workplace Injuries
CHATTANOOGA
According to these workers, on-the-job injuries are among the top issues at the sprawling plant nestled in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee. The union authorization election runs Wednesday through Friday this week; 1,700 workers are eligible to vote.
June 10, 2019
U.S. Workers Are Standing Up for Their Rights. A New Law Would Back Them Up.
The Pro Act would make it easier to from unions and force employers to pay a price for violating workers rights.
June 10, 2019
BREAKING: Muslim Jennie-O Employees on Strike Amid Allegations of Discrimination
Melrose
A group of Muslim workers did not start their 1 pm shift today at a Jennie-O plant in Melrose, Minnesota. Instead they went on strike over allegations of discrimiation. They are claiming that management is not responsive to their needs and are instead changing long-held practices.
June 8, 2019
'We are Doing This for Our Residents'
ELK RIVER
Nursing home workers at Guardian Angels (link is external)in Elk River finished a two-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike this morning.
June 6, 2019
Unions and Immigrant Workers Claim Workplace Abuse at Digi-Key Expansion Project
THIEF RIVER FALLS
Construction unions and nonunion immigrant workers asserted their collective power Wednesday morning in Thief River Falls to protest wage theft, exploitation, and labor trafficking
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South