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Setback for Veolia boosts Solidarity Day 2 for bus union

The fight to reinstate the wrongly fired leaders of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, got…

January 17, 2014

Autoworkers, community activists demand ‘people’s recovery’

For the fifth year in a row, the rank-and-file autoworker advocacy group Autoworker Caravan protested outside the North American International…

January 17, 2014

Big Apple airport workers demand paid King holiday

On Dec. 19, hundreds of contract workers at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports rallied outside the New York headquarters of…

January 16, 2014

Longest railroad strike in south Korea ends, struggle continues

Thousands of south Korean railroad workers ended their strike Dec. 30 after three weeks of intense struggle against the right-wing,…

January 10, 2014

Boeing gets its contract — but by narrowest margin

Seattle — Workers in the Machinists union, District Local 751, expressed shock and disbelief at their main union hall here…

January 8, 2014

Detroit hotel workers picket for higher wages

“The poverty-level wages paid to workers at the Fort Shelby Doubletree Hotel are unacceptable,” charged UNITE HERE Local 24, which…

January 6, 2014

Small Supreme Court victory for unions, big challenges ahead

The legality of card-check neutrality was recently raised in the highest body of the U.S. government, the Supreme Court. Taking…

January 6, 2014

On the picket line

Calif. Walmart workers win back millions Nearly 600 workers at a Walmart warehouse in California have been ­awarded $4.7 million…

January 6, 2014

Organize for stable school busing

Relatives and supporters of New York City school bus riders ended 2013 expressing their determination to gain improvements for children…

January 6, 2014

German union takes on Internet giant

Starting last March and again during the December holiday rush, the German service workers’ union Ver.di, which is organizing the…

January 3, 2014