GM workers in Saginaw, Michigan, voted down drastic concessions by a big margin June 17. It was the second time in three months that GM workers already working at substandard pay refused to be chopped any further.
“This was not a skilled trades coalition, or a legacy coalition, or a temp workers coalition—this was everybody,” said Saladin Parm, a committeeperson (full-time steward) at the plant. “When I tried to give them the explanation of the contract, they said, ‘No, thanks, I’ve got toilet paper at home.’”
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Nearly 600 tree trimmers may be going on strike at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, after they finish cleaning up from overnight storms that hit metro Detroit.
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“We must stand in solidarity with workers in Mexico and around the world,” says Phil Neuenfeldt, Secretary Treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “As long as multinational corporations can silence employees by threatening to move operations to a place with fewer worker protections, our standard of living will continue to decline.”
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The strike by pilots at Spirit Airlines is entering its fourth day with the airline announcing that it is canceling all flights through June 16. Four hundred and fifty pilots struck the low-cost air carrier June 12 seeking improvements in pay to bring them to the level of other discount airlines.
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Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9423 rejected a final contract offer from Century Aluminum yesterday by a secret ballot vote of 443 to 2, sending a strong message to management that terms of the offer fell short of expectations and that the union membership will not be intimidated into accepting a bad deal.
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Strikers at the Congress Hotel, joined by hundreds of community supporters and members of UNITE HERE Local 1, rallied outside the Congress Hotel yesterday, June 14, to commemorate the 7th Anniversary of the Congress Hotel Strike, now the longest hotel strike in American history.
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Bartenders at Foxwoods Resort Casino have asked the National Labor Relations Board to supervise an election in a drive to organize a union.
Brian Petronella, president of Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said Monday the union wants to represent about 360 bartenders, beverage servers and others at the casino in eastern Connecticut.
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Maintenance and food and beverage workers at the elite Castlewood Country Club who have been locked out of their jobs for over 100 days protested in front of the Club on Saturday, June 12, to demand the Club end the lockout and bargain in good faith with their union.
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Hundreds of pilots for Spirit Airlines, which services the northern Caribbean, walked off their jobs early this morning after negotiations over pay broke down.
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Hundreds of Disney hotel workers walked off the job at 8 a.m. this morning, protesting the unjust firing of bartender MaryAnn Hegner and Disney’s refusal to respect worker seniority.
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