Labor

UAW workers in Wisconsin protest shipping U.S. auto jobs to Mexico

Reposted from http://www.laborradio.org UAW workers and their supporters are hitting the picket lines at the Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha Wisconsin today to protest the use of U.S. tax dollars to close the plant and ship...

On health care, unions leave no stone unturned

Unions are making it clear that Democrats crafting a new health care plan for America must not go too far in appeasing a health insurance industry intent on maintaining its profits. A major thing labor wants...

Hartmarx workers sit-in vote spreads to Rochester, NY

In a powerful rising movement to save jobs, union workers are flexing their muscle these days nationwide by voting unanimously to sit-in at factories and not let bailed-out banks decide their fate. More than 450 workers...

VIDEO Indiana USW rallies to ‘Keep it Made in America’

Cheney, Rove attack Employee Free Choice. Thanks!

Workers who want to pass the Employee Free Choice Act don’t just have a broad coalition of allies in support of them—they’re also very, very lucky in their enemies. Opposing the legislation has become a cottage...