Labor
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 18, 2013 -
This convention marked a long overdue strategic shift. The shift is to speak for the whole working class.
October 15, 2013 -
Fracking is promoted by everyone from the CEO of Exxon to President Obama, but its impact on public health led nurses in one state where it's happening to take a stand.
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.
October 10, 2013 -
With the Postal Service facing privatization threats, the American Postal Workers Union has elected a new slate of activist leaders. President-Elect Mark Dimondstein led his Greensboro, N.C. local for 12 years and co-founded an area Jobs With Justice chapter and a local community-postal worker coalition.
October 2, 2013 -
Members of a union local in Texas infiltrated construction job sites and uncovered widespread illegal misclassification of immigrant employees as independent contractors. Authorities are now investigating.
September 24, 2013 -
Activists across the country are looking to duplicate the energy and politics of North Carolina's remarkable Moral Mondays movement.
