UFCW on a roll in southern California
Unionists ratified a new contract with the area's big food chains, and Local 770 passed the 100-store organizing mark at CVS, adding 2,000 members.
Today in labor history: Mass. first state to pass minimum wage
"The industry employing her is in receipt of the working energy of a human being at less than its cost, and to that extent is parasitic."
Sweetheart deal with Staples results in postal cuts in San Francisco
"This is a plan to close Post Offices and outsource postal work. A sign on the door that says 'We're closed, go to Staples.' It couldn't get much more obvious.
Seattle makes history: Council OKs $15 minimum wage
Fast food workers at the council meeting reportedly cried after the vote.
St. Louis workers rally to support fired Jimmy John's employee
Rasheen Aldridge, an organizer with Show Me $15, has been fired because of his role as a protest organizer.
Baltimore hospital workers strike for low-paid workers
The union's wage proposal would add 0.32 percent to Hopkins' $754 million payroll costs; in 2013, Hopkins reported a surplus of $145 million.
Hartford fast-food workers protest wage theft
Fast-food workers and community and faith leaders protested systemic wage theft in the industry, just after the first-ever national poll of fast-food workers showed companies lare stealing money from 89 percent of their employees.
New postal union leader seeks to halt latest privatization scheme
As far as Mark Dimondstein is concerned, the members of the Postal Workers are going to be out in the streets even more than they already are.
U.S. unionists back domestic worker from India
A group of U.S. unionists made it quite clear to India's ambassador to the U.S. that his nation's diplomats should stop treating their own domestic workers as serfs.
NNU: Big hospital chain retaliates vs. nurses who led patient safety campaign
"These disgraceful firings are being carried out in direct retaliation for the public advocacy of these courageous nurses."
