In a display of worker militancy not seen in Hollywood for decades, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are about to vote on whether 60,000 of them will go on strike in October.
After narrowly rejecting a contract offer, the union representing 11,600 working carpenters in Washington state is set to start a strike.
On strike over unfair demands for concessions in contract negotiations including pension and over-time rules.
Many unions sent buses full of supporters from all across the South. There were CWA and UAW members. There were teamsters, teachers, government workers and longshoremen all in union t-shirts. This is what solidarity looks like.
Employees at the snack giant’s facility in Kansas demand an end to unpredictable hours and what they call hazardous conditions amid soaring profits.
Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.
Thanks to solidarity from other union workers, painters striking for fair pay have shut down jobs two Fridays in a row.
The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads. Weird.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town
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