A strike at Walmart? Two of them. In a time when few union members dare strike, three dozen Southern California workers who…
Jane Slaughter
United Auto Workers President Bob King says organizing foreign-owned auto plants is make-or-break for the shrinking union, but it’s been 11 years…
Workers in the nation’s sprawling distribution network hold enormous potential power. They bring $622 billion of goods each year from abroad to…
Members of the United Electrical Workers won another reprieve for a Chicago window factory, re-occupying the plant they famously held in 2008.…
“They issued an ultimatum, I wouldn’t call it bargaining,” said Canadian Auto Workers negotiator Bob Orr. Caterpillar, the global giant in heavy…
On a scale never before seen in Canada, the mayor of Toronto seeks to privatize city services and is taking on the…
In a surprise settlement reached Monday, the Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) and transnational grain exporter EGT announced they’d settled their legal disputes…
The year began with Egypt, moved quickly to the snowy streets of Wisconsin, and re-erupted in August with Verizon workers out on…
Wisconsin unionists are saying that a copycat attack on 191 Machinists at a crane-building company is one more reason to recall Governor…
Strike Wave in China Puts Heat On Official Union Jane Slaughter http://labornotes.org/2011/12/striking-chinese-workers-challenge-official-union Labor Notes China faced its second wave of strikes in…