Labor A spirit of "Yes We Can" pervaded the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care conference in St. Louis.
January 15, 2009 A spirited crowd of at least 30 protested police harassment of mainly immigrant construction workers as they wait for work in Queens.
January 15, 2009 : Brian Cruz SEIU leaders are voting on whether to split--or even eliminate--the 150,000-member United Healthcare Workers West.
January 9, 2009 : Adam Turl Working-class youth urgently need unions in these hard economic times--and labor needs young workers in order to revive.
January 7, 2009 Workers at two Contra Costa County hotels are fighting attempts to curtail union standards, including increases in health care costs.
January 2, 2009 : David Rapkin One week after administrators slapped us in the face with an insulting "final offer," over 10,000 teachers across Los Angeles rallied in protest.
December 16, 2008 : Joe Allen Teamster reformer and UPS strike leader Ron Carey has passed away, but his legacy remains important for the labor movement.
December 16, 2008 : Elizabeth Schulte The vote by workers at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, N.C., plant to join the UFCW is a victory for the whole union movement after a grueling 16-year battle.
December 15, 2008 The sit-in by workers at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory galvanized solidarity actions across the U.S.
December 15, 2008 : Lee Sustar The success of the Chicago window factory occupation is a reminder that workers' power is based at the point of production.
December 12, 2008 : Lee Sustar A factory occupation and solidarity movement has forced Bank of America to come up with $2 million to fund two months of wages and health care for workers.
December 11, 2008 : Elizabeth Schulte Some 4,600 workers at Smithfield Foods' pork-processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., are voting for union recognition with the UFCW.
December 11, 2008 : Lee Sustar Workers are planning a rally at the Bank of America as negotiations fail to resolve the five-day-old occupation of a Chicago factory.
December 10, 2008 Messages of support for the Republic workers have rolled in from labor and other activists around the world.
December 10, 2008 As a solidarity movement surges, politicians are promising to help workers in a Chicago factory occupation that's captured the attention of the nation.
December 9, 2008 : Lee Sustar A factory occupation in Chicago that began as a show of defiance by 250 workers has become a focus of national and international labor solidarity.
December 8, 2008 Workers are sitting in at a Chicago windows manufacturing plant that management announced--on just three day's notice--would be shut down.
December 6, 2008 Hotel workers from the Baltimore City Center Sheraton and their allies came together for a 500-strong march.
December 5, 2008 : Gregg Shotwell A veteran UAW militant takes issue with a proposed auto bailout that would cut tens of thousands of jobs and put retiree health care benefits at risk.
December 4, 2008 : Lee Sustar A major fight is brewing between organized labor and Corporate America over proposed pro-union legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act.
November 21, 2008 Members of the Freightliner Five are vowing to keep fighting until all are reinstated in their jobs at a Cleveland, N.C., truck plant.
November 18, 2008 The aircraft maker dropped its harshest demands to make a deal with white-collar workers. But some engineers are critical of the contract.
November 17, 2008 : Allen Bradley After arbitrators upheld the firing of three of the Freightliner Five, workers are determined to keep up the struggle.
November 14, 2008 Bakery workers at a cookie and biscuit factory in New York City have been on strike for three months.
November 12, 2008 Arbitrators in the Freightliner Five case have overturned the firing of two workers, but let stand the termination of three others.
November 7, 2008
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