A Brighter Day – Happy Labor Day 2016
For this Labor Day weekend, JP brings us a new song he wrote, dedicated to his son and his brothers and sisters at work.
VW Disobeys NLRB Order – Virginia Lipton Workers Vote UFCW – Tenn Spike in Workplace Deaths – Gallup Poll on Unions
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At the beginning of this month, we gave ourselves a goal of bringing in 10 additional dues-paying readers. With less than a day to go, we’ve reached 13! In all, our supporters are contributing $576/month to our efforts to report on the labor movement in the South.
VW Hires Temps at $13.50 an Hour – UAW Wins 192-1 in Tenn – Air Force Base Workers Strike – Workplace Deaths in Virginia
After 7-Year Struggle, Memphis Workers Win Federal Ruling But Will It Help?
A federal ruling this week in a Memphis union campaign underscores the toothless 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.
Resounding Victory for #Law360Union
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.
JP’s New Song on Railroad Fatigue & A Poem on Chinese Railroad Dangers
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.
2nd Florida Paper Moves to Unionize – Non-Union Ironworkers Strike Nashville Again – Baltimore Dems Kill $15 an hour – Happy Birthday Roberto Clemente
OSHA Starts Crack Down on Southern Poultry Plants, But Will Non-Union Workers Talk?
OSHA fined a Tyson’s chicken plant in Center, Texas $263,498 for two repeated violations and 15 serious safety violations.
1st Florida Paper Unionizes – Unpaid Sailors Stranded Off Georgia Coast – Feds Enforce Immigration Laws, Ignore Workplace Dangers – #EqualPlayEqualPay – #FireGardenhire
JP Sings about Berniecrat Khristy Wilkinson, TDU, & #law360union #firegardenhire
Featuring “Singing to the Choir” and a rewritten version of the classic.