Allentown, PA – The workers who maintain Allentown’s 950 public-housing apartments voted unanimously Aug. 22 to authorize a strike. They “have been seeking a fair contract… for nearly a year,”
Turlock, CA – Support-staff workers at Emanuel Medical Center here voted Aug. 22 to join the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West. The 265-55 vote came two weeks after
Houston, TX – Hurricane Harvey, which caused flooding the National Weather Service called “beyond anything experienced” in the Houston metropolitan area, also forced striking at the Wyman-Gordon aircraft-parts plant to abandon their picket line Aug.
New York, NY – On last night’s episode of Blue Collar Buzz, Council Member Mathieu Eugene [D-40th District] helped highlight the deportation crisis currently gripping scores of hardworking immigrant families here
St Louis, MO – Missouri’s new law banning the union shop won’t be going into effect today.
Washington—When the Supreme Court reopens in October, a new effort to end the union shop for public-sector workers is likely to be on its docket. If four justices agree that
Lynn, Mass.—Hundreds of Boston-area transit workers rallied outside the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s garage here Aug. 15, protesting Gov. Charlie Baker’s plans to outsource bus maintenance to private companies.
Suffolk, Va.—The 240 workers at the plant that makes nearly all of the Lipton tea sold in North America have a union contract for the first time since it opened
IAM District 37 President Byron Williams says the strike at Houston’s Wyman-Gordon plant was triggered by the company trying to cut disability pay and wanting to start entry level workers
New York, NY – “Tut-tut and not to worry,” the proponents of so called “open shop” development like to insist; “New York City is a union town and that’s not
