SALEM, Ohio—Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 146 workers at a Northeast Ohio meatpacking plant June 19, in a raid that Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union President Stuart Appelbaum
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The U.S.’s two largest teachers unions joined several civil-rights groups June 20 in filing a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council against the Trump administration’s policy
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—A petition campaign led by former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn is threatening to nullify the $6,100-a-year pay raise Oklahoma teachers won after their walkout last spring. Coburn’s group,
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union of federal workers, filed a lawsuit May 31 asking a federal district court to void President Donald Trump’s May
MEXICO CITY, Mexico—About 8,000 members of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (National Coordination of Education Workers, CNTE), marched in Mexico City June 4, beginning a strike covering
BANGOR, Pa.—A Cleveland-based company in the process of taking over more than 10 Pennsylvania nursing homes is refusing to recognize their contracts with SEIU Healthcare, sparking fears among workers that
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A City Council committee approved a bill June 6 to levy a 1% tax on new construction in order to fund affordable housing, sending the measure to the full
ORLANDO, Fla.—The National Labor Relations Board ruled June 1 that it was legal for Walt Disney World to withhold $1,000 bonuses from union workers engaged in contract talks while giving
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and several other elected officials urged the Anthony Jordan Health Center clinic chain June 6 to accept a federal mediator’s contract proposal and end a three-day
LANSING, Mich.—The Michigan Legislature voted June 6 to repeal the state’s prevailing-wage law, eliminating pay standards for public construction projects. The bill passed with exclusively Republican votes, 56-53 in the
