organizing

  • Celebrate Martin Luther King Day in the Streets

    If you're one of the fortunate workers that gets Martin Luther King Jr. Day off, keep in mind that MLK probably didn't write his famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" in comfy pj's and bunny slippers. Join up with local events commemorating the civil rights movement, or support workers in your area that are fighting to get the day off.

  • NUHW is Decisive in Santa Rosa, SEIU Tries to Postpone Defeat

    Workers capped a six year campaign to organize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital tonight, with 283 voting to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) against 263 votes for "no union."

  • Finally, NUHW Squares Off Against SEIU in Two Hospital Elections
    Mark Brenner
    Dec 16 2009 - 3:01pm

    Nearly eleven months of courtroom stalling has slowed the upstart NUHW but a break in the legal logjam may be coming—finally giving California’s health care workers the ability to choose their union.

  • Cracking the Subcontracting Shell Game

    If you want a glimpse inside the legal maze global corporations have erected to fatten their bottom lines and keep workers off-balance, take a look at this video. Monica Sanchez, a worker at the vacuum-maker Bissell's warehouse in Elwood, Illinois, talks about what happened to her and her co-workers when they tried to form a union with the United Electrical Workers.

  • Delta Air Lines Workers Soon To Get Fair Vote

    It may soon become much easier for workers in the airline and railroad industries to form unions, and the most immediate impact may come at Delta Air Lines.

  • UNITE HERE Won't Concede to Big Hotels
    Paul Abowd
    Oct 28 2009 - 10:22am

    UNITE HERE has launched another round of contract battles with hotel giants. After civil disobedience actions workers in Chicago and San Francisco authorized strikes, escalating a nationally coordinated “bargain to organize” campaign.

  • Philadelphia Museum Guards Finally Win Their Own Union
    Warren Davis
    Oct 27 2009 - 1:00am

    Seventeen years after security guards at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art lost their union in a Democratic mayor’s privatization spree, they joined students and Jobs with Justice to beat long odds and vote in an independent union.

  • Housekeepers' Giant “Hope Quilt” Puts Hotel Job Injuries in Spotlight
    Chris Kutalik
    Oct 16 2009 - 5:38pm

    Hotel housekeepers are on a seven-city tour with a gigantic “hope quilt” that memorializes injuries on the job. It's also a symbol of their determination to rally union and non-union hotel housekeepers against harsh working conditions and workplace injuries.

  • Bargaining in a Recession
    Derek Blackadder
    Jun 23 2009 - 11:52am

    There’s no rocket science to a contract campaign during a recession. But it is different. You can even come out the other side with a stronger union. Here are a few ideas on how.

  • Rite Aid Campaign ‘Poster Child’ for Faltering Employee Free Choice Act

    Jennifer Sargent

    As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union. . . .


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