– Volkswagen’s top labor representative threatened today to try to block further investments by the German carmaker in the U.S. South if its workers there are not unionized, Reuters reported today. “I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory…
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Anti-Worker Bill HB 1507 Gets Pushed Back Another Week; Keep the calls coming, Keep the fight up
– 32BJ members and other union members are speaking out against anti-worker bills in Harrisburg and politicians are listening. Because of the thousands of phone calls and door knocks that SEIU and other union members have made, we were able…
Union Members Urge Boycott As NE Phila. Food Plant Is Shuttered
By Steve Tawa — Area elected officials and union members gathered today outside the former Nabisco and Kraft bakery in Northeast Philadelphia to protest the company decision to close the factory by early next year. Word that Mondelez International is…
AFSCME District Council 33 announces contract negotiations to resume this week; outstanding issues need to be resolved.
– Pete Matthews, the President of AFSCME District Council 33, today announced that contract negotiations between the Union and the City of Philadelphia are set to resume on Friday February 21, 2014 (location to be determined) and should continue, around…
Outside interference undermines VW workers’ free choice in Chattanooga
– A vote on union representation at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee ends in a defeat for IndustriALL affiliate the UAW by 626-712 after threats and intimidation by Republican politicians and anti-union groups. Workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant voted…
