LaborFest 2010: Art, history and today's struggles
In the San Francisco Bay Area, July is LaborFest month - a cornucopia of film, video, tours, art, music, theater, panels, workshops and more, delving into the many issues and struggles of today's workers and those of earlier generations, at home and around the world.
Illinois nuclear plant locks out 200 steelworkers
More than 200 workers were on the picket line last week in Metropolis, Ill., after their employer, Honeywell International, locked them out of their jobs, June 28.
Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
New UAW president vows “social justice” unionism
United Auto Workers' new president, Bob King, pledges to fight for jobs and justice for all Americans.
“Courage and solidarity” wins it for Rio Tinto miners
The recent victory of workers at Rio Tinto's huge mine in the small town of Boron, tucked away in southern California's high desert, is a textbook case of how to win against a giant transnational corporation.
UAW faces attacks like never before, says Gettelfinger
The UAW and its workers have been through a tumultuous period, as the 75-year-old union meets this week in Detroit.
Young union activists quiz top leaders, plan networks
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a scene that one postal worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended.
Arkansas lesson: organize the South
There was justice in organized labor's efforts to unseat Blanche Lincoln - but the real issue is the unfulfilled historic legacy of its plans to organize the South.
APALA leader John Delloro mourned
The labor movement mouns the passing of leader John Delloro, president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.
Texas nurses go union
HOUSTON -- More than 1,900 registered nurses at five Texas hospitals have voted to unionize by joining the National Nurses Organizing Committee.
