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A New Life for Mexico’s Oldest Union

March 30, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

A New Life for Mexico’s Oldest Union

Teaser: “Our vision is defending the interests of workers and a democratic union life.” In conversation with a longtime labor journalist, a Mexican union leader puts current worker struggles in context.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: David Bacon, Mexico, Union

How Workers Are Defying Republican Officials in the South

March 5, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

By David McCall Tanya Gaines and her co-workers launched a union drive in 2014 because it was the only way to win livable wages, fair treatment, and safe working conditions at the Golden Dragon copper tube manufacturing plant in Pine Hill, Alabama, one of the state’s poorest areas. Workers anticipated management’s opposition, but they felt blindsided when […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, Union

 How Union Solidarity Showed This Homeless Veteran a Path Forward

February 10, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

By David McCall Christopher Betterley arrived at the Altamont Veterans Facility in Buffalo, New York, a few years ago needing a home, a haircut, and a fresh start after treatment for alcohol use.He saw a sign tacked to the shelter’s dining room wall advertising jobs at the nearby Sumitomo tire plant, so he cleaned himself […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: organized labor, Union

Unions Are Critical in the Fight Against Israeli Apartheid

January 13, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Stop The War On Unions

When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was among the nation’s largest to do so. It was a bold move, fresh from UAW’s victorious high-profile contract negotiations with the Big Three auto manufacturers a few weeks earlier.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Palestine, Union

How the National Infrastructure Program Creates Jobs for Today and Tomorrow: By David McCall

November 22, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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Ryan Andreas helped his union push through legislation for a national infrastructure program in 2021, realizing that historic upgrades to America’s utilities, ports, and bridges portended brighter futures for him and his co-workers at Travis Pattern and Foundry.It turned out exactly as Andreas anticipated.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, Union

Five Critical Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers

August 2, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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Narrowly avoiding, for now, what might have been the largest strike in United States history of workers employed by a single corporation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to a tentative agreement

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, Sonali Kolhatkar, Union

A New Generation of Organizers Are Building Union Power in the South

May 31, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

Southern Populism and the Secret History of Segregation

By Maximillian Alvarez Mariah Brown: Hi, everyone. Hello. There’s also some seats up here in the front, so you all don’t have to stand. But no pressure, no pressure. Hi, everyone. My name is Mariah Brown. I am the strategic partnerships manager here at Action Network/Action Builder. We want to welcome you all to Build […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: South, Union

Michigan Opens the Door to Restoring Union Power

March 28, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

For the first time in nearly 60 years, a state is poised to reverse its “right to work” law and begin to undo the damage of a corporate-driven anti-union trend.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan, right-to-work, Union

Why workers, especially in Right to Work states, must join unions — in less than 90 seconds (VIDEO)

March 1, 2019 By Egberto Willies

Union

Evette Avery explains why, especially in Right to Work states, every worker should be in a union. In less than 90 seconds she lays out the underlying case.

Filed Under: Evergreen, General Tagged With: Evergreen, Evette Avery, Union, union contracts, unions

Tennessee GOP Threats Scare VW Workers And Stymies Union Formation

February 15, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Union

Union Stymied By GOP Threats VW and its employees both supported the formation of a union at their Chattanooga Tennessee factory. The German company believes in work councils where management and rank & file alike work to make a better working environment and a better product. Tennessee Republicans in a panic worried that the plant […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bob Corker, Chattanooga, Senator, Union, Volkswagen, VW

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