As I watch the picket lines outside of the Erie GE/Wabtec locomotive facility this week, I can’t but help to think of my friend the late Mark Haller, a proud member of UE Local 506. Mark was a skilled photographer, whose photographs would regularly appear in the UE

Writing for the Guardian, Christine Bolaños and Mike Elk have a look at the intimidation faced by immigrant teachers: According to an analysis by the Guardian, more than 13,000 teachers were recruited from overseas on J-1 cultural visas during the last five years alone as a result of local

Reading aloud a letter addressed to her supervisors about retaliation she faced after reporting sexual misconduct within SEIU, Njoki Woods, a 42-year-old African American single mother of 4, begins to cry. Prior to joining the staff at SEIU United Healthcare West in 2015, Woods had spent a decade organizing her

Payday Report has learned through conversations with teachers’ union activists in Kentucky that statewide “sickout strikes” are expected to continue through Monday. On Thursday, schools in the state’s two largest cities, Lexington and Louisville as well as 8 other counties in the states  as a result of the sick