Labor Notes

September 12, 2014 - Suppose we stopped bribing companies to do what already benefits them, and instead focused our public dollars on restoring and expanding public services.

September 1, 2014 - Workers at the Cummins diesel engine plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina won wage increases this summer -- even without having a recognized union or majority union support inside their shop.

August 18, 2014 - Organizers of campaigns targeting the policies of North Carolina's legislature and pressing for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers take a broad approach to movement building and solidarity -- and provide new reason for hope in the South.

July 28, 2014 - After losing a union election at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant, the UAW has formed a local there that it say has an informal "consensus" with the company to deal with it as a members' union when it signs up a "meaningful" share of the workforce. What does that mean, exactly?

July 23, 2014 - While Mississippi Freedom Summer focused on political rights, the organizing holds plenty of lessons for unionists -- and some carried those lessons into the labor movement.

July 3, 2014 - This summer a team of 30 organizers with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee will be working to sign up 5,000 new union members in North Carolina's tobacco fields -- part of a plan to press Reynolds American to guarantee basic labor rights in its supply chain.

June 19, 2014 - As politicians try to turn back the clock 50 years by restricting the bargaining rights of public workers, unions should also look back -- to the great public employee strike upsurge of the 1960s.