labor south

October 21, 2013 - The assault on labor in the region is becoming increasingly war-like, but it's not getting much attention from the mainstream media.

October 11, 2013 - Nissan is violating standards it pledged to uphold by engaging in "a longstanding, aggressive campaign of interference with workers' freedom of association" at its plant in Canton, Miss. where organizers are trying to form a union.

September 12, 2013 - With workplace organizing efforts in the region already making progress, the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution at its national convention this week to make unionizing the South one of its top priorities.

August 27, 2013 - The NAACP partners with Nissan, which is fighting union organizing efforts at plants in Mississippi and Tennessee? What would Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers say? And Walmart promoting American-made products? Really?

August 16, 2013 - In their race to the bottom, Walmart and other companies seeking the cheapest labor are looking beyond China, Bangladesh and Cambodia to military-ruled Myanmar.

August 9, 2013 - College students from across the South are playing a key role in helping workers form a union at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss.

July 22, 2013 - Challenging the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky Southerner, residents of North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia are taking to the streets and standing up to the right-wing corporate agenda.