SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – A plant accident resulted in the death of a worker at Caterpillar’s South Milwaukee plant. Sixty-year-old Steven Wade was hit in the head by a heavy
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—Union construction workers picketed the partially built Electric City Apartments complex here on May 23, charging that a nonunion subcontractor on the state-subsidized project is paying workers significantly less
New York, NY – On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz Lena Melendez of the group Dominicans in Defense of Businesses and Housing talks about how the Real Estate Board
BATON ROUGE, La.—An online survey by the Louisiana Federation of Teachers found that 60% of the almost 4,000 teachers who responded would favor a statewide walkout to win a “significant”
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Just before its session ended May 19, the Missouri legislature passed bills to weaken the state’s prevailing-wage law and make it harder for public-sector unions to collect dues.
WASHINGTON, DC – SEIU is battling with Planned Parenthood over the organizibg of the PP Rocky Mountains-area centers. Planned Parenthood is using both legal as well as political weapons to
LANSING, Mich.—The Michigan Supreme Court on May 15 suspended a lower-court ruling that would have cleared the way to put an initiative to repeal the state’s prevailing-wage law on the
Elections have consequences and now those consequences are coming to fruition as President Trump develops anti-union policies particularly with federal employees.
TRENTON, N.J.—With the Supreme Court expected to rule that public-sector workers don’t have to pay dues to the unions that represent them, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on May 18 signed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A strike by about 600 workers at United Launch Alliance ended May 19 when International Association of Machinists members ratified a four-year contract. The workers, who build rockets
