Jobs With Justice scores wage theft victory over InkStop lockout
It takes a fight to win and Cleveland Jobs With Justice is celebrating its role in a massive repayment of stolen wages in a settlement that has labor lawyers shaking their heads.
There they go again! GOP denies jobless benefits to thousands
When Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma left for his "Spring Break" on March 29, he also left some 200,000 jobless Americans without badly needed money to provide for their families.
Unions, passengers unite to save mass transit and jobs
Thousands of transit workers and passengers rallied at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on March 27 to demand federal funding for public transit systems nationwide.
Chavez message is still strong
Union organizer Cesar Chavez' birthday, March 31, is celebrated in North Texas as it is across America.
Baltimore workers rally for jobs
BALTIMORE, Md. - Chanting "What do we want? Jobs. When do we want them? Now," a crowd of 300 union members and their community allies rallied in the rain at City Hall Mar. 22 to support a bill to create construction jobs for Baltimore City residents.
Workers lose fight to keep NUMMI open
The United Auto Workers' campaign to keep the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) plant open has ended in defeat.
New York May Day reborn
This year, New York's historic May Day celebrations will be reborn with a mass march and rally organized by the labor and immigrant rights movements.
HomeGoods /TJX workers rally for union contract
Hundreds of HomeGoods / TJX workers with their families and supporters rallied at the company's distribution center here on March 10 to demand a fair contract to improve wages and health insurance benefits.
"Arrest insurance execs for criminal activity," health care supporters demand
Some 5,000 activists demanding "Health Care Now!" descended on the nation's capital March 9 to call for the arrest of the nation's leading health insurance executives.
Contract ratified at Cleveland's MetroHealth
Declining patient volume due to the economic crisis forced workers at MetroHealth to accept some concessions in a new three-year contract that was ratified Feb. 12.
