Management actions at New York transit unite workers
The situation at the Central Electronics shop of New York City Transit, under the yoke of a vicious anti-union management, has reached a boiling point.
Missouri workers fight anti-union legislation
"HB 1617 is a patronizing bill that doesn't treat state workers like adults, it treats them like children who don't know what they are doing when they sign an authorization card to join a union."
Students support successful union drive for campus workers
Cafeteria workers, angry at cuts made by management, approached Local 1000 in Grapevine, who sent organizers and the new leader of the Young Workers Council to the university.
AFL-CIO leads demonstration for minimum wage hike outside Heritage Foundation
The labor movement turned up the heat today on opponents of a minimum wage increase by gathering outside of the Heritage Foundation.
What Target says in new video is not what Target means
Target has long been anti-union, and it has a new version of its hilarious propaganda video meant to scare workers away from organizing for a voice on the job.
Postal unions sign cooperation pact, prepare for joint April 24 actions
The target will be schemes to cut postal services, end Saturday pickup and delivery, and fire or let go by attrition hundreds of thousands of workers.
College athletes can unionize, NLRB says
A federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation's first union of college athletes.
Regulatory oversight weak in aftermath of Texas City oil plant blast
But OSHA is so short-staffed, say the Steel Workers who represent the workers at Texas City that an average U.S. refinery would get a PSM inspection once every 120 years.
The BP Texas City oil plant blast: What’s changed and what hasn’t
Nine years ago, on March 23, 2005, the British Petroleum oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, an hour south of Houston, in so many words, blew up.
Mailman wonders how he made it through the winter
A National Weather Service meteorologist has given Metro Detroit the number # 1 ranking in its "misery index." And I deliver mail on foot, house to house, six days a week. That probably explains why I talk to my shoes. I may be delirious.
