Labor

Union contract at Yale based on history of struggle

May 22, 2009 By Joelle Fishman

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Four thousand six hundred union workers at Yale University here won a major victory last month. At a joint press conference with Local 35 service and maintenance workers and Local 34 clerical...

Danny Glover joins tour supporting union manufacturing workers

May 22, 2009 By Associated Press

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Actor Danny Glover joined labor, political and civil-rights leaders on one of the first stops of a four-day, 11-state tour supporting U.S. manufacturing workers.

Florida workers confront union-busters

May 22, 2009

Jacksonville, Fla. — 200 workers gathered May 17 at the IBEW local 177 union Hall to pick up signs supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, form ranks, and march to the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel. The...

Workers face increasing abuse in attempts to form unions

May 22, 2009 By Seth Michaels

On Capitol Hill, labor law experts and a California worker exposed the ugly truth about corporate abuses of workers trying to exercise their freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.

Senators ask for investigation of Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation to continue

May 21, 2009

Here is a report on the PBGC (Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation). This is the agency that is supposed to take over, and administer pension plans in the case of a bankruptcy, assuring that workers do not...