60 Arrested As Airline Food Workers Protest At JFK
The protest was one of 16 at major national airports on behalf of 20,000 airline-catering workers. By Steve Wishnia –
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UAW Just Agreed to Let Ford Use Technology to Monitor Assembly Workers
All that surveillance is used to exert greater management control over workers, drilling them on their choices and how they
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Chicago Teachers Didn’t Win Everything, But They’ve Transformed the City—And the Labor Movement
“It took our members 10 days to bring these promises home,” CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates told reporters after
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Kenya: Agreements Unite Formal and Informal Metal Workers
“United Goal, One Voice” is aim of partnering agreement between Kenya’s metal workers union and associations of artisans and other
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Chicago Teachers Carry the Torch for Decades of Militant Worker Struggles
By building community support and staging disruption, the teachers hope to expand the boundaries of what’s politically possible and force
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Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes
“Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale
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Chicago Teacher, SEIU Strikers Stand Strong
Chicago, IL – Members of the Chicago Teachers Union members and SEIU Local 73 are in the seventh day of
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GM Workers Ratify Contract Though ‘Mixed at Best’
Worley worried about the union’s future: “They say ‘we’ll get ’em next time,’” he said, “but there may not be
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What the Chicago Teachers Union and United Auto Workers Strikes Teach Us
By Stansfield Smith The Chicago teachers and staff, numbering 35,000, are on strike for the second time in seven years.
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CTU Strike: Union Reports Progress at Saturday Talks, but Mayor Says School will Likely be Canceled Monday
Another day of bargaining between City Hall and the Chicago Teachers Union ended Saturday night with reports of continued progress
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