Labor
Hotel workers check out in SF
October 1, 2004San Francisco hotel workers walked out Sept. 29 as part of a three-city struggle to force giant hotel chains to agree to a common contract expiration date. The union has announced the 1,200-member strike will last...
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Haymarket landmark finally established
September 24, 2004CHICAGO — The Teamsters trucked it up from downstate. The Chicago Federation of Labor had lobbied for the funding from the state of Illinois. The Illinois Labor History Society campaigned tirelessly for it.
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Public workers hit the streets in S. Africa
September 24, 2004Hundreds of thousands of South African public workers held a one-day strike Sept. 16 over the government’s rejection of their demands for a 7 percent wage hike, an across-the-boards medical aid and housing allowance, and review...
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Farm workers win big in North Carolina
September 24, 2004Eight 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’...
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Michigan nurses strike for patient care
September 17, 2004MOUNT 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...
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