Machinists reach tentative contract with Caterpillar
The proposed six-year contract contains many improvements over previous offers.
Houston church, NAACP support striking janitors
Ada Edwards, a former Houston city councilor, spoke along with the pastor at St. John's Methodist Church. When you win, we all win, she told the hundreds of workers at the rally.
U. Virginia students on solidarity hunger strike
Students at the University of Virginia this morning began the 12th day of their hunger strike in support of higher wages for university workers.
Thousands of California nurses strike to fight takeaways
The nurses were among 23,000 of their co-workers holding a one-day strike at three-dozen Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern and central California, as well as Oakland Children's Hospital.
Workers see sugar lockout as part of bigger anti-union push
Workers believe that American Crystal Sugar has locked out 1,300 employees at seven plants in three states in order to take advantage of the nationwide attacks on unions.
45,000 Verizon workers strike over company greed
The 45,000 strikers walked off the job this weekend because the company has refused to budge since negotiations began July 22.
1,300 locked out sugar workers fight for jobs, families
Workers are locked outside company gates as their union battles an employer they say is determined to slash health benefits and weaken job security.
Verizon workers to take strike vote July 25 (video)
Verizon workers and retirees face the fight of their lives, as the profitable telecom corporation tries to take back every hard-earned benefit.
Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally
Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.
Machinists rally to save job security
Hundreds of Machinist union members and their supporters ralled for job security Tuesday in front of the IAM Lodge 1746 plant, across from Pratt & Whitney's sprawling main production facility in East Hartford, Conn.
