On Second Try, IBEW Scores Major Victory for Southern Organizing at Electrolux
“We never stopped from last year,” said Paul Schaffer, who was the lead organizer on the campaign. “Our volunteer organizing committee kept fighting and kept going on strong.”
Nashville Fiber Optics Plan Could Cost Union Jobs – Miner Protection Bill Moves Forward – NBC Unit Wins Union after Votes Finally Counted
EXCLUSIVE: Volkswagen Intimidated Workers about Emission Whistleblowing
Workers says that the intimidation by Volkswagen follows a pattern that the company has been engaged in since the defeat of the UAW union drive at its Chattanooga plant in February of 2013.
Locked Out Defense Workers Protest Renewed Contract with Honeywell
Today, several hundred UAW supporters blocked street corners throughout Albany to protest the decision by the federal government to extend an $18.3 million contract to Honeywell, who has locked out nearly 400 workers in South Bend, Indiana and Green Island, New York for four months.
2nd Florida Newsroom Unionized – AFL-CIO Says No to #NODAPL – Undermining Obama’s Overtime Rules
Prison Labor Strike – Dominion Locks Out Workers – #LIUlockout #LIUwalkout – OSHA Again Cites Chicken Slaughterhouse
The South Is Organizing – and There’s No One to Cover It
The fastest-growing region in the United States for union membership is the South, where nearly 150,000 workers opted to join unions last year — bringing the total number of union members in the South to nearly three million. Five of the top 10 fastest-growing states for union membership in 2015 were all in the South. If those number surprise you, that might be because there is not a single full-time labor reporter anywhere in the South.
Elk Talks Organizing in West Virginia on FAIR’s CounterSpin
CounterSpin ran a special Labor Day episode on Friday that included a 2012 interview with Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk.
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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