worker rights – Page 104

UAW members apparently reject FiatChrysler pact

October 1, 2015 By PAI

A key issue in the rejection was the pact's apparent free hand to FiatChrysler to shift jobs between U.S. plants or to Mexico.

Fed up with “Walmart wages,” Alabama auto parts plant goes union

September 28, 2015 By John Wojcik

"Jobs in the auto industry helped build America's middle class, but today they are adding to the nation's low-wage crisis."

Alaska hotel workers hang tough with Sheraton, Hilton boycotts

September 24, 2015 By Teresa Albano

For Alaskan hotel workers, instead of battling weather and wilderness, they have been locked in a lengthy campaign for decent wages.

UAW: Chrysler pact gradually eliminates two-tier wages

September 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

A tentative contract features gradual elimination of the system that the Detroit 3 automakers instituted after hitting the financial rocks during the Great Recession.

Radical roots of the great grape strike

September 21, 2015 By David Bacon

Fifty years ago, the great grape strike started in Delano, when Filipino pickers walked out of the fields on September 8, 1965.