workers rights – Page 90

Paperworkers end strike, resume talks with Nippon

March 26, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

Union paperworkers walked their picket line round-the-clock last week demanding that Nippon Paper resume "good faith" contract talks. They ended the walkout when the company came back to the bargaining table.

Minimum wage workers press Senate for hike

March 22, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - For seven years, Carolle Fleurio has been a cook at a family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga., and even though she enjoys the job, she told a Senate panel here, it's tough to raise a...

Government urged to curb wage theft

March 15, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Wage theft comes through arbitrary employer rulings that workers are "independent contractors." That's a form of fraud that hurts workers, honest employers and governments, too,

Graduate workers at UIC rally

March 14, 2013 By Earchiel Johnson

The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago held a rally titled "Don't Make Us Strike" to protest the stalling of their negotiations for a contract by the administration.

L.A. healthcare security workers demonstrate

March 14, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon

"No contract, no peace!" chanted over fifty demonstrators from SEIU/USWW (Service Employees International Union/United Service Workers West) here Mar. 12.