Words can not adequately express the extent of the devastation incurred by the victims, the families, the entire town of New Port Connecticut and all of America on that dark day in December just a couple weeks ago when a…
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“Right To Work” Laws Pass in Michigan — Labor’s top Stories of 2012
Dec 2012 – In spite 12,000 protesting unionized workers protesting at the Republican-led state House of Representatives, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R), without public input, successfully executed his effort to enact anti-union “Right To Work” Legislation in the state of…
The Great Walmart Walkout — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
For the purpose of protesting Walmart’s unfair labor practices and retaliation against workers, on the biggest shopping day of the year, workers and community members participated in over 1,000 actions across the country as part of a rolling series of…
Hostess Closes Doors, Blames Unions — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
Loaded down with one billion dollars in debt, while in the midst of contract negotiations with the BCTGM Union, Hostess (Makers of Twinkies, Wonder Bread and Ding Dongs) abruptly closed it’s doors and filed bankruptcy causing hundreds of employees to…
Dhaka, Bangladesh Factory Fire — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
In a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were items from Walmart were manufactured, 117 workers were killed when a flash fire ignited inside the factory working where conditions were so poor that workers could not get out of the building because…
