unions

UFCW: D.C.-Baltimore chains going nuclear vs. workers

March 12, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The Washington-Baltimore area's two biggest grocery chains, Giant and Safeway, are "going nuclear" in their war against their combined 30,000 workers.

IBEW members to install electric car charging stations

March 12, 2012 By Ed Finkelstein

Electrical Workers Local 1 and the St. Louis chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association have launched the first electrical car training program in Missouri.

RWDSU launches campaign for NYC car wash workers after devastating report

March 12, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

RWDSU is launching a campaign to bring workers' rights - including the right to organize - to some 5,000 car wash workers in New York City.

Nation’s labor leaders meet to mobilize for 2012 elections

March 12, 2012 By John Wojcik

Leaders of almost every labor union in the country are arriving here today for a special meeting of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.

Occupy’s 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right

March 7, 2012 By Greg Rose

Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.