Samuel Messidor Photo: UAW, Toledo auto workers on strike 150,000 autoworkers organized under UAW in the United States, and 18,000 autoworkers organized under the Canadian Unifor union have voted to authorize a strike by an […]
Samuel Messidor Photo: IBT, Teamsters President O’brien at a practice picket in New York The International Brotherhood of Teamsters representing 340,000 UPS workers have voted in a new, 5-year contract with the corporation. This averts […]
Samuel Messidor On August 31 the striking workers of the Erie, PA Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant voted to approve the tentative agreement reached by the United Electrical (UE) bargaining committee and Wabtec Corporation. The contract […]
Andrew Grossman Windmill Farms workers organized under the United Farm Workers (UFW) rallied in Seattle, WA on August 31st to demand the company recognize their union and engage in the collective bargaining process. The workers […]
Andrew Grossman A warehouse worker at a Memphis, TN Kroger distribution warehouse died August 25 from working in extreme heat. The worker, Tony Rufus, was sweating profusely and asking for water just before his death. […]
Interview with an Ascension Nurse on the picket line in Austin The recently-unionized nurses in Austin have been struggling for safer conditions and better staffing from the multi-billion-dollar “non-profit” Ascension, culminating in a one-day strike […]
Samuel Messidor After months of negotiations, practice strike pickets and demonstrations nationwide, Sean O’Brien and the leadership of the Teamsters-organized UPS workers, 340,000 strong, have announced that a tentative agreement has been reached and have […]
Samuel Messidor In Wabtec’s latest attempt to break the workers on strike at their Erie, PA facility, they have sued the union for the workers’ behavior on the picket lines. 1400 workers at the locomotive […]
Samuel Messidor Citing financial difficulty from low prices in the less-than-truckload business and an inability to pay back massive debt from Federal Covid relief loans and private lenders, Yellow Freight has filed for bankruptcy according […]
Samuel Messidor and Helen Zivar A sixteen-year-old boy, Duvan Robert Thomas Perez, died on July 14th while cleaning heavy equipment at Mar-Jac Poultry Plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This is the third worker death at the […]
