SOUTH EASTON, Mass. – After a three-year fight for representation, drivers and monitors with Massachusetts’s North River Collaborative have officially gained recognition as members of Teamsters Local 653 in South
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, Staten Island mom Sanela Djencic talks about the 11-month-old strike against Charter/Spectrum and what the corporate fat cats are doing to working families
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—A two-day teachers’ strike over pay and benefits closed schools in all 55 of West Virginia’s counties Feb. 22. The walkout, already planned, came the morning after Gov.
PEWAUKEE, Wisconsin – The International Union of Operating Engineers Locals 139 and 420 filed a federal lawsuit seeking to invalidate Wisconsin’s infamous Act 10, a law passed in 2011 that drastically restricted the bargaining
WASHINGTON—Under marble Greek columns and gold-fringed maroon curtains, the Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 26 on whether government workers who are not union members can be required to pay “agency
On this episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, labor law expert Alexander Schmidt talks about restructuring U.S corporations in ways that actually benefit workers; union organizer Phil Cohen talks about
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow. T.S. Eliot “The Hollow Men”
This week, instead of talking about what a bad player Spectrum is, (and it is, no matter how many corporate shills write in) perhaps we might be better served by
GRANITE CITY, Ill.—With U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works closed or running at less than half capacity for more than two years, the U.S. Commerce Department’s recommending tariffs and quotas on
MILWAUKEE, Wisc.—A plea by four members of Missouri’s congressional delegation reminding Harley-Davidson of the subsidies it got to open its factory in Kansas City won’t stop the company from closing
