Mattie Starrdust and Sue Davis

On the picket line

Unions organize online news media’s workers “Digital media is growing up, and it’s time our digital reporters received the same…

August 20, 2015

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End AFL-CIO affiliation with ‘police unions’ “We, UAW Local 2865, call on the [AFL-CIO] to end their affiliation with the…

August 7, 2015

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‘No cutbacks,’ say Verizon workers in Northeast Bargaining began June 22 for 38,000 workers in the Verizon East district of…

July 24, 2015

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Milwaukee bus drivers stage walkout Contract negotiations between the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998, representing over 1,000 public bus drivers…

July 9, 2015

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Mothers strike detention camp Every year, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are rounded up and crowded into prisons while…

June 25, 2015

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Thousands protest N.J. pension fund cuts Some 4,000 members of the Communications Workers and other public sector unions turned out…

June 11, 2015

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Ironworkers on strike in San Francisco San Francisco ironworkers, who do very dangerous but essential work on huge construction projects,…

June 7, 2015

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N.Y. cracks down on abuse of nail salon workers A 2014 Department of Labor investigation revealed an epidemic of labor…

May 21, 2015

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California nurses strike for health coverage, safety Some 5,000 registered nurses, organized by the California Nurses Association and National Nurses…

May 8, 2015

On the picket line

Low-wage restaurant workers: ‘#StopTheOtherNRA’ Several hundred low-wage restaurant workers and their supporters took to the streets of the U.S. capital…

April 27, 2015