NLRB official: Mercedes breaks labor law at Alabama auto plant
The UAW effort in Alabama is part of the union's new focus on organizing autoworkers at foreign "transplant" plants in the South.
British MPs cry when they tour North Carolina tobacco farm
Two members of the British Parliament got a first hand look at the deplorable working conditions that thousands of tobacco workers in North Carolina endure.
Today in labor history: Voting Rights Act signed
It has been a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, by ensuring that every American citizen, regardless of race or language, has equal access to the vote.
Unionized ironworkers aid non-union jobless
The Ironworkers are trying to find jobs for 280 non-union colleagues left high and dry without pay when a large non-union Michigan contractor suddenly shut its doors.
For Steelworkers, one lockout ends, another begins
"It appears Honeywell is more interested in intimidating our members with a show of force than in bargaining for a settlement."
Judge orders Kellogg's to take locked out workers back
A federal judge in Memphis, Tenn., has ordered Kellogg's to take back the 226 union workers it locked out from its cereal plant there over nine months ago.
GOP's Lamar Alexander, catering to right, tries axing Davis-Bacon
In an obvious bid to cater to the radical right, Sen. Lamar Alexander launched a bid to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
July unemployment rate doesn't reflect truth about joblessness
While 131,000 people found jobs last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the number of unemployed people rose by 197,000 to 9.67 million.
Labor rolls out its plan to defeat GOP in November
"You know what our problem is," said the federation's political action director, Lee Saunders, "It's turnout. We have prioritized the election races and we have to get our people out."
Labor leaders say from now on union organizing will be different
America's union leaders and the workers they represent are not going to take it anymore; they are determined to fight the attacks on labor.
