organizing

Former top Dem lawmaker: Fighting the right takes organizing, shoe leather

February 27, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Shoe leather. One-on-one meetings. Finding an issue – economic justice – to pound home. Organize, organize, organize.

Auto workers at Canton, Mississippi Nissan plant to hold union election

July 13, 2017 By PAI

If the UAW wins at Nissan, it would be a major step in the union’s long campaign to organize auto plants in the worker-hostile South.

Nonmajority union organizing can continue; Supreme Court rejects Macy’s complaint

June 21, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

The Court issued an unsigned rejection of Macy’s challenge to successful union organizing among fragrances and cosmetics workers at its Saugus, Mass., store.

Union organizing takes off on college campuses across nation

June 2, 2017 By Roberta Wood And Mark Gruenberg

Campuses of colleges, both private and public, have been a hot spot of union organizing and solidarity in recent years.

Hotel workers demand cities protect them from sexual harassment

May 26, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg And Mariya Strauss

“We think it’s very important to protect our workers, particularly women who are isolated” while cleaning rooms, Sarah Lyons of Unite Here Local 1 in Chicago told WLS TV.