workers rights
NLRB official: Mercedes breaks labor law at Alabama auto plant
August 8, 2014The UAW effort in Alabama is part of the union's new focus on organizing autoworkers at foreign "transplant" plants in the South.
Read moreBritish MPs cry when they tour North Carolina tobacco farm
August 8, 2014Two members of the British Parliament got a first hand look at the deplorable working conditions that thousands of tobacco workers in North Carolina endure.
Read moreKellogg’s lockout of bakery workers headed for court
July 25, 2014The NLRB seeks a court injunction ordering Kellogg's to take the workers back and bargain in good faith with their BCTGM, locked out last Oct.
Read moreWorkers and lawmakers team up to force fair scheduling at Walmart
July 22, 2014Walmart workers were on Capitol Hill telling lawmakers how the giant retailer's scheduling practices make it impossible for most of them to lead anything approaching a normal life.
Read moreMetropolitan Opera unions say they are being forced to strike
July 18, 2014Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down are combining to force members of the 16 unions to plan to strike, if necessary.
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