Union sees AT&T buyout of T-Mobile as good for workers
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile could open the way for unionization of the thousands of T-Mobile workers who have been denied a voice on the job.
AFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive
DETROIT - Saying the labor movement has become too small and too inward-looking to defeat corporate power by itself, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Auto Workers legislative conference that unions must build wider coalitions to achieve their legislative and political goals.
European unions set to march for “Robin Hood taxes”
Next in the "rising tide of world labor protest" file comes the September 29 labor actions in Europe.
N.Y. transit union pickets UPS, backs Turkish workers
New York City union members converged outside United Parcel Service's midtown Manhattan office Sept. 1 for an informational picket line on labor rights issues in Turkey.
U.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen
Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.
World AIDS Day: ‘Be faithful, be tested, be unionized’
In South Africa, a highly successful AIDS program is led by a union.
‘Health care or food?’
"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."
French and U.S. labor fight plant closing in France
American union members joined workers from the French union federationto demonstrate against Molex Inc in Lisle, Ill. Video included.
Labor hits union busting by immigration agency
An important report by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project paints a shocking picture of how, under the Bush administration, ICE, (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) ran roughshod over the rights of immigrant workers and blocked enforcement of labor law.
Workers win biggest back pay award in history!
The Fluor Daniel Corp. has agreed to pay $12 million to 167 workers it denied jobs 15 years ago because they belonged to or were organizing for one of four different unions.
