Labor
June 16, 2006 -
North Carolina has one of the lowest rates of workers in unions in the country. Every year, the Old North state battles with its Carolina cousin to the South for the state with the lowest union density. In 2005, 3.9% of NC's workers were in a union.
June 9, 2006 -
The National Farmers Union sends out this alert:
June 1, 2006 -
Just days after killing a minimum wage increase for Tennessee workers, the Tennessee General Assembly voted to give themselves a 9.5% raise, nearly three times the raise voted for state employees.
May 23, 2006 -
A textile mill company is shutting down operations in South Carolina and Alabama, and the job losses will be significant:
May 22, 2006 -
Following the deaths of five more miners in Kentucky on Saturday, Jordan Barab at Confined Space issues this call to Washington:
May 2, 2006 -
In an update on a janitor's strike that has been going on for two months at the University of Miami, where former Clinton Secretary of Health and Human Services
May 1, 2006 -
One part of the story of today's historic May Day boycott will be the big rallies in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Orlando -- the third wave of major demonstrations in the last two months for the growing immigrant rights movement.