Manufacturing - Payday Report (Page 2)

VW Disobeys NLRB Order - Virginia Lipton Workers Vote UFCW - Tenn Spike in Workplace Deaths - Gallup Poll on Unions

Mike Elk Sep 02, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: the Pittsburgh of the South, where Payday is having a co-op retreat this weekend. Virginia-Based Lipton Workers Join UFCW & Florida Drivers Join Teamsters This week’s Lunch Pail goes out to the 200 Lipton Tea Workers in Suffolk,

VW Hires Temps at $13.50 an Hour - UAW Wins 192-1 in Tenn - Air Force Base Workers Strike - Workplace Deaths in Virginia

Mike Elk Aug 26, 2016 0 Comments

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

Honeywell Locks Out F-35 Workers in Its Push to Pay Less Than $15 an Hour

Mike Elk May 27, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk In November of 1936, South Bend, Indiana’s Honeywell Aerospace plant, then owned by Bendix, was the site of the first sit-down strike by the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The workers were ultimately successful in getting the UAW recognized, and the tactic quickly spread across the US,

Why Won't the U.S. Adopt the Chemical Safety Rules that Obama Forced on Afghanistan?

Mike Elk May 12, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk The Avoidable Disaster This week, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms ruled that the 2013 West, Texas chemical and fertilizer explosion, which killed 15, was caused by an intentional criminal act. The investigators ruled that the perpetrator set off a fire in a seed bin near

The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity & The Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen

Mike Elk Apr 28, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk. Originally published on March 13, 2014 at In These Times. During the nearly two years he worked at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Hunter, 43, spent his days bent over, crawling in and out of cars on the assembly line. He believes the posture slowly

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VW Disobeys NLRB Order - Virginia Lipton Workers Vote UFCW - Tenn Spike in Workplace Deaths - Gallup Poll on Unions

VW Hires Temps at $13.50 an Hour - UAW Wins 192-1 in Tenn - Air Force Base Workers Strike - Workplace Deaths in Virginia

Honeywell Locks Out F-35 Workers in Its Push to Pay Less Than $15 an Hour

Why Won't the U.S. Adopt the Chemical Safety Rules that Obama Forced on Afghanistan?

The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity & The Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen

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