workers rights
Steelworkers honor Danny Glover and Ed Schultz (with video)
August 22, 2011On the final day of their International Convention 2011, the United Steel Workers (USW) introduced the union's new Paul Wellstone award. The first recipients are: actor and chair of TransAfrica, Danny Glover; and Ed Shultz, host...
Read morePressure grows on sugar company to end lockout
August 18, 2011The East Grand Forks, Minn., city council voted unanimously to send a letter urging American Crystal Sugar to return to negotiations with its locked-out workers.
Read moreVerizon threatens strikers with health care cutoff
August 18, 2011Workers this week will miss their first paycheck as result of the strike, now in its 11th day. Pension and disability benefits were suspended as the strike began.
Read moreTrumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
Read moreSteelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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