Report: Nissan in Mississippi is violating international labor law
The company is in violation of the standards on freedom of association, the report notes, because of Nissan's "aggressive interference" with workers attempting to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union.
UAW on verge of breakthrough in South?
There are now so many auto workers in the South that one Southern U.S. GOP senator recently claimed his region is now the center of the U.S. auto industry.
Connecticut unions reach out to all workers
The convention's clear agenda was to organize the unorganized and stand up for the rights and needs of all working people.
Supreme Court postpones top labor case involving NLRB rulings
McCutcheon is scheduled for Oct. 8, but the court may not be in session because Congress has not approved money bills to keep the government going.
Today in labor history: Black farmers meet to unionize, are attacked
Arkansas Gov. Charles Hillman Bough sent 100 U.S. troops to the area, where they exchanged gunfire with the farmers.
Unions sue agency for pulling City College of San Francisco accreditation
Teachers' unions and others here are suing an accreditation agency over its decision to revoke accreditation of the City College of San Francisco.
University workers call off strike
In a startling last-minute reversal yesterday, workers at several Oregon universities called off a strike set to begin on Monday.
AFL-CIO in motion after history-making convention
Unionists and their allies are wasting no time carrying out the decisions of what was a trail-blazing convention.
Today in labor history: 10,000-plus dockers locked out
Pacific Maritime Association, a coalition of corporate shipping giants, locked out 10,500 longshore workers today in 2002.
“Right to work” strategy session draws uninvited guests: union members
Backers of proposed right-to-work initiatives in Oregon and Washington got a taste of what the political fight might look like Sept. 5 at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash.
