Fired hotel housekeepers reject Hyatt ‘job offer’
Hyatt offered to "rehire" fired Boston hotel workers: but take a look at the strings attached!
Labor organizing workers with social media
Labor unions are increasingly using the Internet as an organizing tool with an eye to building among younger workers.
Unite-Here says: Sí se puede, yes we can!
Video: About 200 hospitality workers and supports arrested in Chicago civil disobedience. Park Hyatt Chicago, Sept. 24, 2009.
Resurrection Health Care workers vow: ‘We’ll win our union’
Solidarity is the word on the picketline as over 8,000 Chicago hospital workers fight to organize a union.
New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone
The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.
Labor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers
PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that they believe are needed to rescue both workers and the planet.
Detroit fights for access to fresh food
DETROIT — This is a city in crisis whose residents get hit from many angles. The city’s unemployment rate (officially near 30 percent) alone would spell catastrophe for any population.
Wells Fargo guilty of crimes against workers, rally charges
CHICAGO – Hundreds of labor, faith based and community leaders rallied here in front the downtown corporate offices of Wells Fargo Sept. 24 calling the bank guilty of criminal actions aimed at working people.
Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20
Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without the hype.
Machinists file lawsuit to save jobs
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Workers, elected officials and the entire labor movement are rallying to the aid of International Association of Machinists District 26 in their effort to save 1,050 jobs at two profitable Pratt & Whitney repair facilities in Connecticut. Parent company United Technologies (UTC) plans to outsource the jobs to Singapore and Japan where universal health care reduces labor costs.
