Labor

Workers reject sugar company demands; lockout continues

November 3, 2011 By John Wojcik

Workers at American Crystal Sugar's seven plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa rejected, by a nine to one margin in a Nov. 1 vote, the company's latest demands.

Right-to-work legislation enables the one percent

November 2, 2011 By John Rummel

Michigan Senate Bill 729 is another insidious attack on working people initiated by the Republican-controlled legislature.

In Ohio town, Solidarity Day rally vows to repeal SB 5

November 2, 2011 By Tim Steinhelfer

Hundreds rallied on the courthouse lawn in Newark, Ohio, on Oct. 30, "Solidarity Day," calling for repeal of Ohio's union-busting SB 5 law.

We Are One Illinois fights back

October 31, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin

Thousands of union members overflowed the Illinois Statehouse to defend their pensions and collective bargaining rights.

Right-to-work scheme rears its head in Indiana again

October 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A GOP scheme to make Indiana into a so-called "Right to Work" state, crippling unions by allowing thousands of workers to be freeloaders, has reared its head in the Hoosier State - again.