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February 24, 2014 - With workers at the Kellogg plant in Memphis locked out since October over a labor contract dispute, family budgets are dwindling -- but the local community has rallied to support them.

February 17, 2014 - How important was the United Auto Workers' loss at the VW plant in Tennessee, and what does it mean for the future of labor in the South?

February 12, 2014 - Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. are voting on a union this week. But contrary to some media reports, a "yes" vote wouldn't be the first unionization win for Southern auto workers.

February 7, 2014 - As workers at Nissan's plant in Canton, Miss. fight for the right to an intimidation-free union election, workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. prepare to vote in a secret-ballot election beginning Feb. 12.

January 27, 2014 - Kellogg's profits are up. So why has the breakfast cereal giant locked out workers at its factory in Memphis, a city that has been the site of other historic labor struggles?

January 20, 2014 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while speaking out for striking sanitation workers. The civil rights community is once again rallying behind struggling workers in the city -- this time, union employees who were locked out of the Kellogg cereal factory, where the workforce is majority African-American.

December 20, 2013 - A new report from the NAACP makes the case for why energy policy is a racial and economic justice issue and the many benefits of moving to clean energy.