worker rights

Senate GOP votes to kill NLRB union elections rule, Obama promises veto

March 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 53-46 party-line vote, the GOP-run Senate voted to kill the NLRB's planned union elections rule update.

Wisconsin GOP continues its “right-to-work” steamroller

March 6, 2015 By Dominique Paul Noth

Republicans aren't slowing down their steamroller despite widespread opposition that continued this week from all quarters in Wisconsin.

Organizers say it’s possible to grow unions in the South

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.

Oakland workers celebrate new minimum wage

March 2, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

On Mar. 2, tens of thousands of Oakland workers will get a pay raise, and thousands more will have paid sick days for the first time.

Restaurant workers picket for fair contract and respect

February 26, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 65 workers at Oaks Corner have been without a contract for two and a half years, and haven't had a raise in eight years.