NLRB: Groups’ call center fired worker for union activism
"They've taken every opportunity to fire people, and they've been getting away with it."
National Labor College to close
"I am saddened to report that the Board of Trustees directed me and the college's officers to develop a plan to close the college," said the institution's president.
Today in labor history: Phone workers call for union
The National Federation of Telephone Workers - later to become the CWA - was founded today in New Orleans in 1938.
Supreme court wrestles with outlawing card check and other union rights
Some right-wing anti-union moves ran into an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13.
Community, union unite to save jobs at GE plant
General Electric recently announced that it slated the closure of its plant in Fort Edwards, N.Y., and intends to move the remaining plant operations to an undisclosed site.
Today in labor history: Supreme Court used Taft-Hartley Act to break a steel strike
In 1947 the 81st Congress, controlled by Republicans for the first time since 1930, overruled President Truman's veto and rammed the Taft-Hartley Law through Congress, severely limited strike activities .
“Solidarity forever” is retiring union leader’s legacy
"John took us in," said Trumka. "We won a tremendous strike and saved healthcare for 2,000 families, my mother and dad included."
D.C. taxi drivers join Teamsters
In the latest instance of a group of low-wage, hard-to-organize workers banding together and joining unions, taxi drivers in Washington, D.C., are joining Teamsters Local 922.
Perez: Cut poverty? Among other things, strengthen unions
"Any anti-poverty approach must raise up the rights of workers to join a union and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions."
Unionized carwash workers in New York win first contracts
The three-year pacts cover workers at the Webster Car Wash and WCA/Rico Pobre Car Wash in the Bronx and the Jomar Car Wash and Sutphin Car Wash in Queens.
