Labor

Unionists chart antiwar drive

December 10, 2004

CHICAGO — How can union activists make sure the unfolding discussion in the AFL-CIO includes the issues of international solidarity and peace? How can we move the foreign policy debate forward in the labor movement? How...

S.F. hotel workers triumph over lockout

December 3, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel And Sonia Siegel

SAN FRANCISCO — Some 4,300 hotel workers returned to work triumphantly at 14 of this city’s premier hotels last week, after area health providers’ decisions to extend workers’ medical coverage for December and January pulled the...

Workers strike the Youngstown Vindicator

December 3, 2004

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Fed up with years of wage freezes and concessions in health care benefits, workers represented by Local 11 of The Newspaper Guild went on strike Nov. 16 against the The Vindicator, a daily...

Labor united against the Bush agenda

November 19, 2004

Opinion“While our candidate, John Kerry, did not win, we are proud that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, along with the entire family of labor, united in an historic effort to fight for the interests of working...

Hotel workers pick up the pace in Los Angeles and San Francisco

November 19, 2004 By Sonia Siegel And Kelly McConnell

Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council.