By Mike Elk and Kris Warner It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from the Pittsburgh of the South: Chattanooga, Tennessee! Tennessee Cadillac Seat Makers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join UAW This week’s Lunch Pail goes out to the workers at Magna Seating in Spring Hill, Tennessee, who voted 192 to 1

By Kris Warner A federal ruling this week in a Memphis union campaign underscores the toothlessness and ineffectiveness of labor law. For the past seven years, workers there have been attempting to organize and collectively bargain at several Ozburn-Hessey Logistics (OHL) distribution centers. Last Friday, the U.S. Court of

By Mike Elk Today, media workers at Law360 struck a decisive blow in the burgeoning media workers rights movement. Staff at the legal news publication voted 109 to 9 to join the NewsGuild in a National Labor Relations Board election. The victory at Law360 opens the door for further organizing

When JP Wright is not wearing his Folk Labor Desk hat, he is a Locomotive Engineer, driving trains from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee. This song details the stress of working a job that takes a person away from home for 70 hours a week. Freight railroad workers work on