AFL-CIO Launches ‘Bring Jobs Home’ Campaign
Over the past decade, about 50,000 manufacturing sites closed and 6 million American jobs were lost due to outsourcing, according to the AFL-CIO union. Friday, the union kick-started the first of several nationwide Bring Jobs Home events. Upcoming mobilizations will highlight the Bring Jobs Home Act, legislation introduced by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) in More...
Union Rejects American Crystal Sugar Company Contract Proposal for Third Time
The majority of locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. rejected the company’s contract proposal a third time Saturday, reported the Wall Street Journal Saturday. According to Mark Froemke, 56, More...
Chicago Public School Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike
Chicago Public School teachers have voted to authorize a strike, with plans to picket if they need to this fall. The union confirms that teachers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike with more than 75 percent More...
Workers Strike at Doubletree Hotel San Jose
About 250 workers at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California walked off the job Monday morning, marking the first strike at a Silicon Valley hotel since the region’s hotel industry began its expansion in More...
Postal Support Employees (PSEs) to Be Eligible for Health Insurance Soon
The first group of Postal Support Employees (PSEs) is approaching their one-year anniversary, which means that they will soon be able to sign-up for health insurance. PSEs are eligible to sign-up for federal employees’ More...
Union Urges Caterpillar Workers to Reject Revised Contract
Union leaders at the Caterpillar Inc. plant, based in Peoria, Illinois, say that they will urge striking workers to reject a revised contract offer. “It is still a terrible contract,” said Tim O’Brien, More...
APWU and USPS Reach Settlement to Protect Staffing
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the USPS reached a settlement May 25 to protect staffing. The agreement, which resolves case number Q06T-4Q-C 10269698, scheduled for this week, will prohibit the Postal More...
US Airways Express Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike
Air Wisconsin flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA (AFA) voted to authorize a strike should management fail to reach an agreement with the Flight Attendants. An overwhelming More...
Federal Judge Overturns Union Election at N.Y. Target
A federal judge ordered a new vote, setting aside an unsuccessful unionization election at the Target store in Valley Stream, N.Y., after finding that Target managers had intimidated workers and violated federal More...
US Department of Labor’s OSHA announces intent to establish Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee
By the U.S. Department of Labor WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced its intent to establish a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. More...
