Labor & community activists converge @Organizing 2.0
NEW YORK -- Several hundred labor organizers, community organizers and progressive technologists gathered here Dec. 6 for the Organizing 2.0 Conference.
Steelworkers' hall rededicated to workers killed building union
Local 1010 of the United Steelworkers union (USW) is proud of its militant history and its rededicated union hall.
Union goes on the offensive with charter schools
Charter school teachers in Chicago vote for union representation.
Campaign launched for mercado workers’ rights
Labor, community and faith-based organizations announced a campaign for owners of ethnic grocery stores - often called "mercados" - to comply with state and federal laws.
World AIDS Day: ‘Be faithful, be tested, be unionized’
In South Africa, a highly successful AIDS program is led by a union.
Transit workers’ rally highlights safety, budget woes
CLEVELAND - A rally protesting the Regional Transit Authority's refusal to address worker and rider safety in contract talks dramatized the challenge facing public transit systems in today's economic crisis.
U.S. & German unions unite to battle T-Mobile
The Communications Workers of America and its German counterpart have teamed up to battle T-Mobile's union-busting efforts in the U.S.
U.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers
In a big victory for a U.S. student campaign, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel, agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down after its workers formed a union.
Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
Housekeepers march in support of ‘Hyatt 100’
CHICAGO - Hundreds of women, members of Unite Here Local 1, marched and rallied at the Hyatt hotel, telling the mega-chain to rehire 100 housekeepers it fired in Boston.
