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,…
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Private Equity’s Latest Scheme: Closing Urban Hospitals and Selling Off the Real Estate
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…
Volkswagen Workers Talk Wildcat Strike Following Narrow Defeat in Chattanooga Amid Unionbusting
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…
Pro-UAW TV Ad Mobilizing Community Around Respect Issues at Volkswagen
(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…
UAW Election at Volkswagen Set for June 12th-14th
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…
NewsGuild Challenger Threatens to File Federal Charges if NewsGuild Doesn’t Agree to New Union Election
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…
How the Battlefields of Chattanooga Helped Me Heal as a PTSD Survivor
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…
Top Journalists Accuse NewsGuild of Breaking Federal Law & Call for New Election
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…
BREAKING: Trump NLRB Cancels UAW Vote at Volkswagen in Chattanooga
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…
Unprecedented Rally for VW Workers in Chattanooga Buoys Support for UAW
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…
Western N.C. Newspaper & Payday Team Up to Cover Elder Care Worker Organizing
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…
On the Death of an Italian Resistance Fighter Nicola DiRito
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…