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Red Tape: Controlling the International Flow of Apparel
More than half a million jobs in the apparel industry have been lost since NAFTA. Ladydrawers connects the dots between homeland security, bras and the loss of US jobs.
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Grad Employees Re-Unionize at New York University—First in the Country
This makes NYU once again the only private university with unionized graduate employees.
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Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions
Boeing is one of the few remaining major corporations in the US that still offers defined-benefit pensions. But on Friday, 30,000 union workers in Washington state voted to give …
Washington State Boeing Workers Accept Pension Concessions
Mike Elk: Boeing workers' new contract is a blow to worker pensions nationwide.
Mine Featured in “Coal” Reality TV Show Cited for Labor Law Violations
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against Cobalt Coal and two other entities, charging that the companies subverted unions in pursuit of profit.
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Public Sector Unions Win When They Preach “Tax the Rich“
Washington's much-hyped federal budget deal offers little relief for public employees.
On Heels of Brazil-Wide Protests, Aerospace Strikers Win Pay Raise
Brazil's labor laws are better than ours. Unions are allowed everywhere and workers vote by region and sector on which union will represent them.
2013 in Review: Aiming Higher, Labor Tries New Angles and Alliances
Unions tried new angles on organizing - some promising, others vaguer.
Will Boeing Workers Nix Givebacks in Forced Re-Vote?
The vote by this large industrial workforce could be a last stand for private-sector pensions for new hires.
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Advice for Young Women: Get a Union Job
Whether they're soldering on an assembly line or educating the next generation of young professionals or rallying in the street for a decent contract, union women are everywhere.