Communications Workers, Teamsters reach tentative pact for 15,000 at American Airlines
The CWA and the Teamsters reached a tentative first contract for 15,000 passenger services agents at American Airlines.
Who was Casey Jones? Hint: Not just a Joe Hill song
Jonathan Luther "John""Casey" Jones from Jackson, Tenn., was an American railroader who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad.
SEIU members: “When we fight, we win!”
They came from cities up and down the East Coast to show their unity and support for each other in ongoing contract struggles.
UAW members apparently reject FiatChrysler pact
A key issue in the rejection was the pact's apparent free hand to FiatChrysler to shift jobs between U.S. plants or to Mexico.
Fed up with “Walmart wages,” Alabama auto parts plant goes union
"Jobs in the auto industry helped build America's middle class, but today they are adding to the nation's low-wage crisis."
Rev. Barber: Voting rights fight is do or die for labor
"The labor rights and voting rights movements are interconnected - we must be smart enough to hook up; if we do, we can change this nation."
Labor communicators spotlight “uprising” in the South
"The movement for social and economic justice is growing faster in the South than anywhere else in the U.S."
LCLAA report advocates Latino organizing, workers centers
Labor's Council for Latin American Advancement is advocating "strategic investment" in organizing Latinos and more use and promotion of workers' centers.
Alaska hotel workers hang tough with Sheraton, Hilton boycotts
For Alaskan hotel workers, instead of battling weather and wilderness, they have been locked in a lengthy campaign for decent wages.
UAW: Chrysler pact gradually eliminates two-tier wages
A tentative contract features gradual elimination of the system that the Detroit 3 automakers instituted after hitting the financial rocks during the Great Recession.
