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Author(s):
Paul Krehbiel

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Some problems are so big that it takes more than a good stewards council to solve them. Budget shortfalls, outsourcing, business closings, political corruption, health care and education crises, the war—you need a lot of clout to take on these types...

This August, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), a network of over 140 worker centers that organize mostly immigrant day laborers, entered into an agreement that would allow worker centers to apply for membership with local and state federations of the AFL-CIO. The agreement...

Boston janitors ratified a five-year contract on November 9, two weeks after ending a 23-day strike that attracted national attention. The trustees of the janitors’ union, Service Employees Local 254, called the settlement a victory because it extended health benefits to 1,000 part-time workers...

When auto parts maker Delphi first announced that it planned to toss out its union contracts through bankruptcy in October 2005, the unions representing the tens of thousands of workers at Delphi didn’t have much to say. Then reports of a group of angry auto workers began to surface. . .

Author(s):
Robert Schwartz

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When an employer begins to hire permanent replacements, the union must carefully evaluate its position. If the numbers of replacements are small, the union may be able to shrug off the hiring as a scare tactic. But if the employer appears...

After five months of struggle and violent repression, Local 22 of the Mexican Teachers Union and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca continue their fight to remove Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz. . .