Bernie’s Demand for Media Blackout During Union Talks Spurs Debate as Campaigns Unionize
When Tim Shorrock heard Senator Bernie Sanders blast some of the union workers on his campaign last week for speaking out about their working conditions,…
When Tim Shorrock heard Senator Bernie Sanders blast some of the union workers on his campaign last week for speaking out about their working conditions,…
Originally published at the American Prospect On Thursday, thousands of union workers and community members are expected to rally against the decision of private-equity tycoon…
CHATTANOOGA, TENN – Hours after the UAW received the heartbreaking news that the union lost by 29 votes in its second attempt to unionize Volkswagen’s…
(This article originally appeared at the American Prospect) CHATTANOOGA, TENN. – Outside of Volkswagen’s 3,000-worker auto plant in Chattanooga, where they make the Passat and…
Despite months of legal delaying tactics by Volkswagen and the Trump-appointed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRB finally announced today that they would conduct…
Over Memorial Day weekend, Jon Schleuss, a 31-year-old LA Times journalist who lost his union election to 61-year-old NewsGuild incumbent Bernie Lunzer by a mere…
As a young man, I had covered the drug war in Brasil. I saw terrible things: dead bodies, terrible drug addiction, and I overheard the…
Today, a group of dozens of prominent journalists and NewsGuild union activists released a letter calling for a new election for NewsGuild union leadership. The…
Today, the Trump-appointed National Labor Relations Board blocked the request for workers at Volkswagen to hold a union election. The NLRB ruled that since 160…
Over 5,000 union members live in the Chattanooga area, but to many residents, organized labor’s presence can seem invisible. On Monday, representatives from 17 area…
Payday is excited to team up with the Ashe County Line, a paper in rural Western North Carolina to cover elder care work organizing in…
The Nazis couldn’t kill Nicola “Nic” DiRito when he was fighting against fascists in Occupied Italy as a teenager during World War Two, but today…