Dan DiMaggio

Local Unions Take Lead in Verizon Strike Solidarity

As the strike by 39,000 Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers continues into its third week, efforts are underway to broaden picketing at Verizon Wireless stores across the country. Workers at seven Wireless stores in Brooklyn, New York, and Everett, Massachusetts, are on strike, along with wireline workers from Massachusetts to Virginia.

On the Line with Verizon Strikers

Thirty-nine thousand Verizon workers walked off their jobs April 13, beginning one of the largest strikes in years.

Flight Attendant Reformers Sweep Union Elections

Reform candidates swept national elections in the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents 25,000 crew members at the merged American Airlines and US Airways.

Mass Layoff for Condos: Not Sweet, Really Low

The workers who make Sweet’N Low started the new year with some bitter news. Their factory will shut down in the next few months, likely to make way for luxury condos.

Solidarity Is Key to Beating Trump's Divide-and-Conquer

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If there’s one value the labor movement holds highest, it’s solidarity.

A brilliant recent example is Kohler, Wisconsin, where 2,100 factory workers struck against two-tier wages. Most strikers were top-tier workers standing up for their lower-tier brothers and sisters—a point of pride for the union.

This kind of solidarity generally doesn’t make national headlines, though. Instead we’re fed a steady diet of billionaire Donald Trump’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and other working people.

Secret Weapon vs. Verizon: Retirees

As 38,000 Verizon union members enter their fifth month without a contract, crews of retirees are swinging into action to defend their own health benefits.

Locked Out Steelworkers Resist Company Wish List

Twenty-two hundred Steelworkers, locked out since August 15, are refusing demands for major concessions on health care, retiree benefits, and subcontracting.

Grand Rapids Bus Drivers Fight to Save Pensions

Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 836 in Michigan have brought a 15-foot inflatable camel to their pension fight.

As Cadillac Tax Threat Looms, How Can Unions Respond?

Your employer has already brought it up in bargaining—or else is about to. How hard are unions getting hit, and what can we do about it?

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