ALBANY, N.Y.—After going five years without a contract, New York State Thruway workers have reached a tentative deal. Members of Teamsters Local 72, which represents about 2,500 toll collectors, maintenance
HOUSTON, Tex.—With much of the work cleaning up debris from Hurricane Harvey being done by undocumented immigrants, wage theft has spiked since the late-August storm flooded the area.
New York, NY – This week’s episode of Blue Collar Buzz finds Democratic-Socialist Lee Carter going in depth about how he defied conventional expectations and won a seat in Virginia’s House
RALEIGH, N.C.—North Carolina’s Farm Labor Organizing Committee filed a suit Nov. 15 challenging a state law that sharply restricts union activity in agriculture.
WASHINGTON—A bill introduced in Congress Nov. 16 would attempt to salvage the country’s floundering multiemployer pension plans thorough a combination of federal loans and insurance.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court will not review a lower-court ruling holding that Illinois child-care providers and home health-care assistants cannot refuse to be represented by the Service Employees International Union.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—More than 77,000 people have signed an online petition urging Walmart, Target and Toys R Us “to put people over profits and refuse to open their doors on Thanksgiving Day”
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—With the Supreme Court likely to eliminate fair-share fees for public-sector unions next year—in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees—California’s unions are preparing to absorb
Here we go again. The Republicans have once again repackaged and offered up to the people good old fashioned supply side economics. So, once more it is the task of
OLATHE, Kan.—Truck drivers at the giant Sysco food-service company’s Olathe, Kansas, distribution center went on strike at 4 a.m. Nov. 16 “after management allegedly threatened reprisals for the workers’ union
