Labor

Farm workers win big in North Carolina

September 24, 2004

Eight thousand farm workers won union recognition Sept. 16 with the signing of what the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) called the largest union contract in North Carolina history. The pact with the North Carolina Growers’...

Michigan nurses strike for patient care

September 17, 2004

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — “We’re out here for the patients,” said Mary James, a medical-surgical nurse at Mount Clemens General Hospital. “We can’t give them proper care. Money is not an issue — just give us...

Overtime fight wins a rare victory on Capitol Hill

September 17, 2004

News Analysis These days, with Bush in the White House and Congress locked down under Republican control, a legislative victory for workers is rare. But 22 Republican members of Congress, many from swing states, and under...

Labor grass roots harvest a bumper crop

September 10, 2004

PITTSBURGH — “In 2000, I voted my gun. In 2004, I’m voting my job!” read the banner draped across steel beams on one of several Ironworkers floats in this city’s Labor Day parade. Below the banner,...

Unity and the grass roots are labors real power

August 27, 2004

It’s been a long time since the labor movement has been so united, so energized and so mobilized. This remarkable upsurge is based on fierce determination by union members to defeat George Bush and elect John...