unions

New Haven prepares for week of action for jobs

November 29, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Actions include supporting the emergency need for massive public works jobs to restart the economy and aid communities, to be paid for by taxing the rich and ending the wars.

Republicans plan FAA shutdown to bust unions

November 29, 2011 By John Wojcik

Republican union busters are planning, just in time for the holidays, a shut down of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Mediation board rejects AFA complaint of Delta interference

November 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The ruling apparently ends AFA-CWA's third try to organize flight attendants at the "new Delta." The NMB's decision bitterly disappointed AFA.

International solidarity ends in win for New York paper mill workers

November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A pair of international union allies helped Paperworkers at the Huhtamaki Packaging Plant in Fulton, N.Y., defeat a terrible company health insurance scheme.

U.S. last in unionization among developed countries

November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.