Labor

Transit workers on strike for pay and pensions

November 4, 2009 By Ben Sears

Transport Workers, Local 234 struck the Southeastern, Pa. Transportation Authority (SEPTA). on the morning of Nov. 3 over pay and pension related issues.

Wisconsin set to teach labor history

November 4, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Shouldn't it be natural for public schools to put front and center labor history?

USW vs. Georgia Pacific: another ‘Employee Free Choice’ moment

November 4, 2009 By Scott Marshall

WHEATFIELD, Ind. — United Steelworkers and retirees from around Indiana and Illinois came to this rural area here Nov.3 to show support for their union at Georgia Pacific's wallboard plant there.

San Diego: land of day laborers, farm workers and guest workers

November 3, 2009 By David Bacon

In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the road, hoping a contractor will stop and offer them work.

Ford workers reject givebacks

November 3, 2009 By John Wojcik

By late yesterday it was clear Ford workers have overwhelmingly rejected contractual givebacks that their union had negotiated with the company.