Organized labor is girding for a battle this fall as it fights to maintain political strength in the face of declining membership.
Unions have won a share of legislative and workplace organizing battles in Colorado, and nationally, with Democratic majorities in the state legislature and in Congress.
AFA-CWA members at Compass Airliness will picket at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport on Tues., Sept. 7 to protest the firing of Kirsten Arianejad, who was fired after publicly revealing that she qualified for food stamps on the flight attendant wages Compass pays.
Hyatt Regency Waikiki workers staged a one-day strike on Thursday. Jesse Russell reports.
The workers are represented by UNITE Here Local 5 and the strike was approved because talks with hotel management are stalled.
A dispute between Nurserymen’s Exchange and United Farm Workers’ over union ballots sits on Agricultural Labor Relations Board members’ desks in Salinas. The ultimate decision will determine whether workers from the Half Moon Bay wholesale plant grower will be allowed to unionize. A group of ex-Nurserymen’s Exchange workers even paid a visit to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board last week to check the status of the undecided labor vote, which is expected to be decided later this month.
Harley-Davidson is squeezing its union workers in Milwaukee under a threat to move the production to a Kansas City plant.
Union workers said they plan to protest outside Express Scripts on Monday to expose what they describe as the company’s threats to close down a Pennsylvania plant if workers don’t agree to pay and benefit cuts.
Santa Rosa’s Neilmed Pharmaceuticals, target of a three-month strike by the Teamsters Union, is facing federal charges that it violated workers’ rights.
Democrats are about to get a huge influx of money for November’s big elections as they try to hold onto both the House and the Senate.
Who will be the ones donating this big chunk of cash? Two of the nation’s largest labor unions–the AFLCIO and the SEIU.
The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed to coordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-union candidates, most of them Democrats.
The two labor organizations say they have a combined $88 million or more to deploy in this year’s election cycle. It’s not clear how much of that money they will pool together.
Workers who manufacture doors for Weather Shield in Park Falls, Wisconsin, have voted to join Teamsters Local 662. The 145 skilled workers who produce everything from French doors to hinged patio doors were in desperate need of strong union representation.
