IKEA: Union-busting is “how American system works”
DANVILLE, Va. - IKEA is known round the world for being a fabulous employer but its first U.S. plant is a modern sweatshop with poverty wages, forced overtime and mandatory "educational meetings" for anyone who hints any interest in joining a union.
IKEA in Virginia: A modern sweatshop
"Your daughter gets sick. You take her to the hospital and turn in a doctor's note when you get back - one demerit. Death in the family, you stay home - one demerit."
Union strength grows at Illinois universities
University employees and students in Chicago and at colleges throughout Illinois are stepping up union campaigns and ready to strike for their collective bargaining rights.
Wisconsin union battle moves to … Massachusetts?
The overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts state House passed a bill that would limit the right of public employees to collectively bargain for their health care.
Victory after a 5-year union push at Rite Aid
Rite Aid went to work almost immediately on developing an aggressive campaign to block the union organizing drive.
Sweeney, prominent bishop challenge Catholic Church on action for workers
Retired AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, one of the Catholic Church's most prominent laymen, and a bishop are challenging their church to live up to its own ideals on workers' rights.
New Yorkers join in taking back May Day
The sun was shinning as 10,000 New Yorkers celebrated International Workers Day last Sunday, May 1.
Ohio labor launches petition drive to repeal anti-labor bill
Thousands of volunteers are fanning out across Ohio circulating petitions to repeal Senate Bill 5, a measure stripping collective bargaining rights from over 350,000 public employees.
Right-wing agenda in Memphis would reverse King era gains
Even in Memphis. That's how far down the chain of state and local governments the right wing war on workers has extended - and take it from one who knows, Alvin Turner.
Memphis sanitation workers inducted into Labor Hall of Fame
The sanitation workers from Memphis, whose strike for union recognition and respect on the job led Dr. King to that Tennessee city 43 years ago were inducted into the Labor Hall of Fame in Washington.
