Car Rental Workers At Seattle Airport Win Nearly Two Million Dollars In Back Pay

In one of the largest back-pay cases in the state’s history, 150 car rental workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington won nearly two million dollars last week in back-pay and interest from Hertz and Thrifty rental agencies after the companies failed pay workers the minimum wage. The small city of SeaTac, where the airport is located, became the first in the nation to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour in 2013 after voters appro

Farm worker Union Launches Boycott Against Reynolds E-Cigarettes, Rallies Against White Supremacy

At their national convention Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, the AFL-CIO Farm Labor Organizing Committee celebrated its fiftieth year by launching a boycott of Reynold’s Vuse E-Cigarettes. FLOC Organizer Catherine Crowe says their membership has been targeting Reynolds American and other tobacco companies for over a decade:

Worker Action Leads To Firing Of Abusive Manager At Virginia Target Store

Collective worker action has led to a victory for nonunionized workers at a Target store in Christianburg, Virginia. After years of trying to have General Manager Daniel Butler removed through official channels for sexual harassment and racist remarks, a small group of workers mounted a five day strike at the end of August, presenting testimony to the corporation and the public to hold him accountable. On Friday, they received word that Butler has been fired.

Wisconsin GOP’s $3 Billion Tax Giveaway To Foxconn Largest In State History

One Wisconsin Now says the $3 billion state tax subsidy Republicans want to give to Foxconn is the largest ever state subsidy to a foreign corporation. Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau says even if the rosiest of projections come true it will take Wisconsin 25 years just to break even on the deal subsidizing Foxconn’s start-up in Wisconsin.

Disney World Unions Push To Transform Mickey Mouse Wages Into Living Wages

Thousands Of Chicago Workers Joining Fight For $15 Massive Labor Day Mobilization

LA Building Trades Proud Of Their Second Chance Program For Former Prisoners

NNU Union Sends Over A Thousand Volunteer Nurses To Houston

National Nurses United’s RN Emergency Response Network is sending a thousand volunteer nurses to Houston. Bonnie Castillo is the RN Emergency Response Network Director for the union.

AFL-CIO’s Trumka: Racists & Wall Streeters In Trump White House

By Doug Cunningham

Unions Must Be on the Front Lines of Fight against Racial, Economic Injustice

Unions Must Be on the Front Lines of Fight against Racial, Economic Injustice
by Art Pulaski

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