Today in labor history: United Farm Workers sign contract with Calif. grape industry
The contract covered 10,000 workers and provided seniority, hiring, and a medical plan.
Labor movement in for a major makeover
The labor movement, aiming to reverse decades of decline suffered under relentless attacks by the corporate-funded right wing, is headed for a major makeover.
Survey: Majority backs public schools over alternatives
The U.S. public still strongly supports public schools and wants to improve them - and is willing to pay to do so.
Letter Carriers: Even Dem plans for postal “reform” fall short
The latest Republican version of "reform" of the red-ink-ridden U.S. Postal Service is unacceptable.
Senate to vote by July 31 on all five NLRB nominees
The Senate will vote during the week of July 29 on all five of President Obama's nominees.
Steelworkers oppose using Chinese steel for Verrazano Bridge repairs
Another local transit agency is repairing another big well-known U.S. bridge using Chinese steel, and thus not U.S. steel or steelworkers.
Canada’s conservative government presses anti-union bill
The right-wing Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched yet another assault on working people in Canada.
Today in labor history: Black farmer-union leader murdered by sheriff’s posse
A leader of the Croppers' and Farm Workers Union in Tallapoosa County was brutally murdered July 15, 1931, by a heavily armed white mob.
Reid, with labor’s support, moves toward “nuclear option” in Senate
The U.S. Senate could be about to make some historic changes in the way it operates if Harry Reid, the labor movement, and its allies have their way.
AFL-CIO’s Holt-Baker, 30 others, arrested at West Virginia protest
The U.S. "is not great because of CEOs and lawyers. It's great because of working people. This is a faith-based movement, it's a civil rights movement, and it cannot fail."
