On April 27, 1944, Attorney General Francis Biddle arrived in Chicago to order Montgomery Ward head Sewell Avery to either extend his workers' contract so they would not strike during.
There is no more difficult labor union to read and write about than SEIU. This is for two reasons. First, it operates somewhat differently than other labor unions, including having.
Trish Kahle has a really great essay in Dissent on how the roots of our unwillingness to do anything meaningful to fight climate change are also the roots of our.
I like this strategy from the Teamsters, handing out flyers outside of Chipotle because one of their big tomato contractors refuses to recognize IBT organization of their processing plant. Particularly.
On April 9, 1865, the traitor Robert E. Lee surrendered his forces to U.S. general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War. But while.
Uber and Lyft run their whole model on assuming their "employees" are independent contractors, meaning that the companies get to rake in the profit without assuming most of the risks.
A Wisconsin judge ruled Wisconsin's recent right to leech work bill unconstitutional, agreeing with unions that it is an unconstitutional seizure of property because unions have to represent the leech.
This is one good reason: This is what unions are for: Alain Sherter reports that two unionized mine workers in West Virginia were very unhappy with a company-sponsored bonus plan.
