Amazon.com workers in Germany staged a one-day strike on Wednesday, May 15 to demand that the company increase wages and improve benefits. The workers are members of the Germany service union Ver. di. The union had negotiated an industry-wide agreement with representatives of Germany’s retail and mail order businesses. The agreement sets standard wages, benefits, and […]
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Hong Kong dockers seek international support for their strike
April 24, 2013 
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Dock workers in Hong Kong called for international support for their strike against Asia’s richest billionaire. The Union of Hong Kong Dockers (UHKD) and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions on April 22 urged working-class organizations and individuals to show their solidarity with the dock workers by organizing protests at businesses owned by Hutchinson […]
Read moreTexas Firestone workers on strike to protect health care
March 22, 2013 1 Comment
Workers at the Firestone Polymers plant in Orange, Texas, near the Louisiana border, are on strike to protest changes to their health care plan proposed by the company during recent contract negotiations. The company wants to make the workers’ current health care plan more expensive in hopes that the changes will encourage workers to switch […]
Read moreMore walkouts at Walmart
February 13, 2013 0 Comments
Workers at Walmart stores in Dallas and Laurel, Maryland on February 7 walked off the job, and workers in Laurel filed unfair labor practice charges against the company. The walkout and filing of charges was sparked by misstatements made by Walmart managers who told employees that collective actions such as last year’s Black Friday events at […]
Read moreTeamsters ratify agreement with organic food distributor ending nine-week strike
February 11, 2013 0 Comments
Members of Teamsters Local 117 on January 7 ratified a new five-year agreement with United Natural Foods Incorporated. The ratification vote ends a nine-week strike at a company distribution center in Auburn, Washington. As a result of the agreement, 72 Local 117 members fired by UNFI in December will get their jobs back. The firings caused […]
Read moreAs Hostess prepares to sell brands, workers set the record straight on company’s demise
February 4, 2013 1 Comment
Hostess, which filed for bankruptcy last year and began liquidating its assets in November, announced that it has accepted the latest stalking-horse bid worth $410 million for the purchase of its snack cake brands, bringing the total amount of stalking-horse bids for its bakery brands up to $858 million. The bids establish a floor where bidding will […]
Read moreNYC School bus employees strike enters second week; Mayor Bloomberg remains MIA
January 30, 2013 1 Comment
New York City school bus employees and their employers on January 28 resumed talks in an attempt to settle a strike affecting 150,000 New York City students and their families. Michael Cordiello, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, the employees’ union, said that the talks were a step in the right direction but that New […]
Read moreGlobal solidarity network backs longshore workers
January 22, 2013 0 Comments
The International Transport Federation, a global federation of unions with 4.5 million workers in the maritime, air, road, and rail transportation industry, said recently that it will actively support US longshore workers locked in a contract dispute with the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association (PNGHA), the bargaining representative for four highly profitable international grain traders in the Northwest US. The […]
Read moreTeamsters call out organic food distributor for unfair labor practices
December 14, 2012 1 Comment
Members of Teamsters Local 117 in Auburn, Washington returned to the picket line after United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) announced that it would permanently replace 72 of the 163 warehouse workers and truck drivers who walked off the job on December 10 to protest the company’s unfair labor practices. Teamster members on December 13 unconditionally […]
Read moreClerical workers strike shuts down operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
November 29, 2012 0 Comments
About 70 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, who work as clerks walked off the job at the APM Terminal’s Pier 400 at the Port of Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 27, to protest outsourcing. The terminal is the largest at the Port of Los Angeles. The mostly female workers were ordered by […]
Read moreCalifornia Walmart workers get early start on Black Friday actions
November 21, 2012 2 Comments
The nationwide day of actions against Walmart planned for Black Friday got off to an early start on Tuesday when Walmart associated in Pico Rivera, California walked off the job. About 120 workers and their supporters carrying signs that read, “I’m (the name of the associate) and I’m on Strike” picketed the store. Associates walked […]
Read moreHostess, bakery workers head to mediation; liquidation on hold–for now
November 20, 2012 0 Comments
Federal bankruptcy judge Robert Drain on Monday urged Hostess Brands to seek the help of a mediator to resolve a strike by members of its bakery union, BCTGM. Hostess agreed, temporarily putting its planned liquidation on hold. Negotiators from Hostess and BCTGM will meet with a mediator on Tuesday morning. The Teamsters, Hostess largest union, […]
Read moreHostess seeks executive bonuses as it puts employees out of work
November 19, 2012 0 Comments
Bloomberg reports that Hostess Brands will seek permission from a bankruptcy judge to pay executives as much as $1.75 million in bonuses to oversee the liquidation of the company and lay off 18,500 workers. Hostess, which filed for bankruptcy in January for the second time in eight years, announced on Friday, November 16 that it would […]
Read moreHostess files for liquidation; strike continues
November 16, 2012 1 Comment
Hostess Brands on November 16 filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court seeking permission to close down its business and liquidate its assets. The company had threatened to liquidate if a strike by its bakery workers continued past a 5:00 P.M., November 15 deadline. The deadline came and went; the bakery workers remained on strike, and the […]
Read moreWalmart labor unrest grows
November 15, 2012 0 Comments
Walmart faces more labor unrest as dozens of workers at its warehouse in Mira Loma, California walked of the job on Wednesday, November 14. The walkout comes just eight days before Walmart associates in stores across the US plan to strike against company retaliation against associates who speak up for better working conditions on Black Friday, […]
Read moreUnion charges Hostess with misinformation campaign to weaken strike
November 14, 2012 0 Comments
The number of Hostess Brand bakeries that are either on strike or whose workers are honoring picket lines established by strikers increased to 24 as the strike that began on November 9 spread across the nation. In an attempt to disrupt the growing unity of Hostess bakery workers, Hostess CEO Gregory Rayburn announced that because […]
Read moreHostess bakery workers on strike
November 10, 2012 0 Comments
Members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM) who work for Hostess Brands began walking off the job on Friday, November 9 to protest an 8 percent wage cut unilaterally implemented by the company at about one-third of its 34 bakeries in the US. By Monday morning, workers at 11 Hostess bakeries had gone on […]
Read moreUT System rebuffs ironworkers seeking justice; workers vow to escalate actions
October 29, 2012 1 Comment
A group of striking ironworkers and their supporters on Friday, October 26 gathered in front of the University of Texas System headquarters in downtown Austin to speak out about unsafe and unfair working conditions where they work. The group tried to meet with UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa to ask him why the system hires […]
Read moreWalmart strikes spread
October 10, 2012 0 Comments
Workers at more Walmart stores throughout the US walked off the job on Tuesday morning (October 9) and went on strike to protest unfair labor practices at the retail giant’s stores. Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR) members said that Walmart employees, or associates as the company likes to call them, are striking to […]
Read moreMore non-union workers prepare to strike
October 9, 2012 0 Comments
Joining Walmart workers, Walmart contractor workers, and Port of Seattle short-haul drivers, another group of non-union workers is considering an unfair labor practices strike. Aircraft fuelers who work for Aircraft Service International Group voted overwhelmingly to strike if their employer does not return a suspended fellow fueler to work and address the safety problems that the workers […]
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