Labor : Andy Libson United Educators of San Francisco won a victory in blocking layoffs, but union leaders won’t oppose a retrograde state ballot measure, Proposition 1A.
April 22, 2009 One room in an otherwise quiet building at City College of New York was packed with students and strikers strategizing about the struggle ahead.
April 21, 2009 : Gregg Shotwell The UAW is responsible for GM's problems--if a media concoction like that smells like b.s. and looks like b.s., trust your common sense and skip the taste test.
April 20, 2009 : Adam Turl Employers are worrying about the "Starbucks problem"--the possibility that their employees might follow the example of baristas and join the union.
April 17, 2009 : Randy Childs We're seeing the early stirrings of a potentially massive movement to oppose the threat of layoffs in our schools and even deeper budget cuts to come.
April 9, 2009 Some 2,500 union members and their supporters rallied on the New Haven Green April 4 to call for a fair contract at AT&T.
April 9, 2009 Some 200 people gathered at a church in Harlem for a fundraising event for the strikers at Stella D'oro in the Bronx.
April 9, 2009 : Jesse Hagopian From Baghdad to Washington, D.C., anti-labor forces want to neutralize teachers' unions. But teachers are fighting back in defense of schools.
April 7, 2009 Contracts covering about 100,000 workers at AT&T have expired, but CWA members are still at work while negotiators remain at the table.
April 6, 2009 : Eric Ruder As a condition for further government help for General Motors and Chrysler, the Obama administration is demanding big concessions from workers.
April 6, 2009 Students, workers and community supporters marched around Rochester Institute of Technology to support campus workers who are trying to unionize.
April 6, 2009 : Adam Turl A blitzkrieg of opposition by Corporate America and a weak campaign by labor have undermined chances for passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
April 3, 2009 Two strikers talk about the struggle at a cookie maker in the Bronx after more than half a year on the picket line.
April 3, 2009 Labor activists gathered at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 to honor workers who died so needlessly--and call for safe conditions today.
April 1, 2009 : Ruby Wolf One of the labor movement's largest unions is being torn apart as SEIU President Andrew Stern backs a breakaway faction.
March 31, 2009 Laid-off workers and their supporters protested outside an East Providence, R.I., jewelry maker that shut its doors in January without warning.
March 30, 2009 Sixty teachers, paraprofessionals and substitutes met to help build a new caucus inside United Educators of San Francisco.
March 30, 2009 : Randy Christensen The 170,00 CWA union workers at AT&T, where contracts expire on or near April 4, are infused with a "Yes We Can" attitude.
March 25, 2009 : Ronnie Pineda The president of the local representing pressroom workers at the Los Angeles Times explains the history of the fight to save jobs at the paper.
March 24, 2009 About 50 students, unionists and other activists turned out March 16 to support striking workers at Moncure Plywood.
March 23, 2009 Members of SEIU Local 73 were locked out of their jobs March 20 when they attempted to wear union T-shirts to work at UIC Hospital.
March 23, 2009 : Andy Libson Frustrated by years of inaction by union leaders, rank-and-file educators in San Francisco have launched a caucus that is contesting union elections.
March 18, 2009 : Kevin Chojczak San Francisco educators are celebrating a decision to use money from the city's "rainy day fund" to stop layoffs. But the fight is far from over.
March 17, 2009 In Charlotte, N.C., teachers organized a protest over Superintendent Peter Gorman's plan to balance the budget with hundreds of layoffs.
March 16, 2009 San Diego teachers protested layoffs March 13 as part of California-wide actions against cuts to education.
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