After hours of walking on a hot and humid city street, recently, two Spectrum strikers took time from the picket line to answer a question: What’s at issue with the
Reprinted Washington, DC – The RWDSU and the Retail Action Project recently conducted an OSHA training session at the RWDSU offices in Manhattan. At the session, 30 retail workers took
South St. Paul, MN – American Red Cross workers in three Midwestern states have overwhelmingly ratified their first union contract. The deal, announced Aug. 11 by AFSCME Local 3931, runs
Augusta, ME – The union representing more than 9,500 state workers has agreed to a tentative contract that would allow non-members they represent not to pay agency fees.
Kansas, Mo.—Kansas City voters on Aug. 8 overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour later this month—but the vote was likely symbolic, because
Washington, DC – A top federal appeals court ruled Aug. 4 that a Pennsylvania company had illegally violated workers’ free-speech rights by freezing wages during a union-organizing campaign in 2012.
Atlanta, GA – UNITE HERE Local 23 will hold a memorial service at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Aug. 11 for TeeTee Dangerfield, a trans woman server at the airport who
Los Angeles, CA – SAG-AFTRA members have ratified a new three-year master contract for prime-time TV and feature films. The deal, which won 76% of the vote, drew significantly more
Reprinted Lowell, MA – Local 513 members at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Lowell, Massachusetts, ratified a new contract with a unanimous vote. The contract calls for wage increases of 2.75 percent
Reprinted Washington, DC – Over 100 Guitar Center workers at stores in four states have unanimously ratified their first contract with the RWDSU/UFCW. The three-year contract, which covers Guitar Center workers in stores in New
