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.
How Workers Are Defying Republican Officials in the South
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 […]
How Union Solidarity Showed This Homeless Veteran a Path Forward
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 […]
Unions Are Critical in the Fight Against Israeli Apartheid
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.
How the National Infrastructure Program Creates Jobs for Today and Tomorrow: By David McCall
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.
Five Critical Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers
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
A New Generation of Organizers Are Building Union Power in the South
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 […]
Michigan Opens the Door to Restoring Union Power
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.
Why workers, especially in Right to Work states, must join unions — in less than 90 seconds (VIDEO)
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.
Tennessee GOP Threats Scare VW Workers And Stymies Union Formation
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 […]