LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis has asked local school officials to turn over the names of teachers who called in sick on the days that sickouts forced them to
MEXICO CITY, Mexico—Walmart de Mexico has reached a deal with the Revolutionary Confederation of Laborers and Farmworkers (CROC) union to raise about 8,000 store workers’ pay by 5.5%, both sides
CHICOPEE, Mass.—Hundreds of union members and their supporters rallied March 20 outside a Stop & Shop supermarket here, demanding that the company drop demands for cuts in their overtime pay,
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Almost 1,500 gaming workers at four Las Vegas casinos have voted to join the United Auto Workers, the union announced March 17. The vote at Bally’s, Harrah’s, Paris,
TORONTO, Ontario—With legal marijuana stores scheduled to open in Ontario April 1, call-center workers at the province’s government-owned pot wholesaler voted unanimously March 12 to join the United Food and
JACKSON, Miss.—The Mississippi House voted March 11 to increase teachers’ pay by $4,000 over the next two years, four times the $500-a-year raises previously approved by the state Senate. Rep.
WASHINGTON—Staff at the Service Employees International Union’s national headquarters here have voted to authorize a strike, Office of Professional Employees International Union Local 2 announced March 12. The OPEIU said
CHICAGO, Ill.—Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike March 10, resisting management’s demand to change their retirement plan from a defined-benefit pension to a 401(k)-style defined-contribution plan. “Individuals would have
DETROIT, Mich.—Job security and keeping work in the U.S. will be the United Auto Workers’ top priorities in contract talks with the “Detroit Three” auto manufacturers, union President Gary Jones
BUTTE, Mont.—Industrial Workers of the World organizer Frank Little was kidnapped and murdered in 1917, but more than 100 years later, people are still leaving mementos at his grave in
