Labor

Top NLRB regional official orders re-run vote at Amazon warehouse in Alabama

November 30, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union gets a second crack at unionizing 6,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama where Amazon is guilty of seven counts of labor law breaking.

Activists block European Amazon warehouses on Black Friday

November 29, 2021 By Kelvin Chan

Climate activists blockaded Amazon warehouses in three European countries on Friday.

Postal unions take wait-and-see stand on new postal board nominees—and DeJoy’s fate

November 24, 2021 By PAI

DeJoy’s business model is to slow service, loosen on-time delivery standards, ban overtime, raise prices, and close and consolidate sorting centers, eliminating jobs.

Nurses, mental health therapists and other Kaiser Permanente health workers strike to support stationary engineers

November 22, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Over 60,000 members of other unions representing Kaiser Permanente workers throughout northern California held solidarity strikes Nov. 17 and 18.

Remembering union brother Jimmy Hooks

November 19, 2021 By Ray Milici

Even though Veterans Day has passed, I just wanted to get his name out there. If his friends didn’t remember, he would be just another forgotten working class hero added to a long list.