Labor

Tentative pact lets 18,000 Kaiser California nurses cancel strike

January 21, 2015 By PAI

"The pact shows the chain recognizes the nurses' devotion to assuring the highest level of quality care for patients as well as protections for the nurses who deliver that care."

Newspaper Guild changes name to NewsGuild, re-elects Lunzer

January 20, 2015 By PAI

After almost eight decades as The Newspaper Guild, delegates to the union's convention voted to officially change its name to The NewsGuild.

Quill Pettway, 94: A giant laid to rest

January 20, 2015 By John Rummel And April Smith

Quill Pettway, labor organizer and civil rights pioneer was part of a generation of Communists and radicals who made Detroit's rich labor and civil rights history.

To honor of King they marched for lives in Los Angeles

January 20, 2015 By Eric A. Gordon

Over 3000 marchers and tens of thousands of observers lined up along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in solidarity with the theme Black Lives Matter.

Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize

January 20, 2015 By David Bacon

No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.