Strikers at Spectrum Nursing Homes gain support
Twenty-one labor, community, elected officials and clergy members were arrested by Hartford police Tuesday for blocking the entrance of Park Place Health Center in support of District 1199 Spectrum strikers.
Memorial Day 2010: A steelworker point of view
Someone said that in a progressive society there is nothing permanent except change.
Video: Don't get caught in a bad hotel!
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer activists creatively tell the hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ people from all over the country coming to San Francisco in June for Pride to stay out of the boycotted hotels.
Steelworkers lobby for jobs, jobs, jobs -- good, green and safe
WASHINGTON — "Our people want to work!" Rep. Betty Sutton of Ohio declared at the 1,000-strong Steelworker Rapid Response Conference here on May 6.
New York reclaims May Day
The workers of the world united, literally, May 1 in a historic rally organized by the labor and immigrants' rights movements.
Obama at miners’ memorial asks ‘How can we fail them?’
"How can a nation that relies on its miners not do everything in its power to protect them?" the president said to the thousands at Sunday's memorial in Beckley, W.Va.
Nursing home workers strike hard-line Spectrum Corp.
Nurses, nursing assistants and elder-care support staff at four skilled nursing homes operated by Spectrum Healthcare went on strike in four Connecticut cities this week.
Don’t do business at Congress Hotel, strikers urge
"We're here to ask your support in our strike against the Congress Hotel - our families have been suffering for seven long years."
Mine union leader on Massey CEO: Handcuff and jail him!
West Virginia coal miners stopped work April 16 to mourn the 29 killed at the Massey Energy mine, and President Obama ordered a top-to-bottom review of mine safety enforcement.
Massey CEO to miners: I will close this mine if you vote union
"This guy, making $30-some million in 2005, went inside the coal mine and sat down with every single worker and said: 'If you vote for the union, you're not going to have a job because I will close this mine down.'"
