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Two girls, ages 12 and 14, have been charged with aggravated stalking for what a Florida sheriff described Tuesday as "maliciously harassing" a 12-year-old girl who jumped from a tower to her death.
For two years now, the flight attendants at Allegiant Air have been without a contract. At a rally asking Allegiant to negotiate with the flight attendants in good faith, the crowd, led by the Transport Workers (TWU), chanted, "Two years is too long!"
On the Saturday morning of Oct. 12, an unusually bright and warm fall day, 24 union volunteers gathered in Pinconning, Mich. Their goal was to build a handicap accessible ramp at the home of Ron Rulapaugh, whose 13-year-old grandson became a quadriplegic after a diving accident in August. The teenager went through surgery during the summer, but a ramp had to be in place before he could be released from the facility where he is currently undergoing therapy.
Last week, after nearly a year of protests, rallies, marches and court battles, the Mine Workers (UMWA) reached an agreement with Peabody Energy to cover future health care benefits for the retired coal miners affected by the bankruptcy of Patriot Coal. Patriot was spun off from Peabody in 2007 but saddled with the benefit obligations for former Peabody miners.Today in The American Prospect, Harold Meyerson explores how the UMWA staged “a brilliant and innovative campaign that has ended in a stunning victory.”
A suspected al Qaeda operative captured by U.S. special forces in Libya is due in federal court in New York on Tuesday to face charges that he helped plan the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa.The suspected operative, Abu Anas al-Libi, was whisked off the streets of Tripoli on Oct.
In a historic victory for working people, earlier this month more than 7,000 Vermont home care workers voted to join Vermont Home Care United, part of AFSCME. This is both the largest union organizing victory in Vermont history and the largest national organizing win in 2013. These workers won bargaining rights with the state government through an innovative community-labor campaign and can now negotiate to improve their working conditions, pay, hours and benefits. Their victory is a powerful reminder of how worker centers and unions can work together to empower marginalized workers not covered by the National Labor Relations Act and without traditional collective bargaining rights.
With the House Republican shutdown of the government entering its third week, working families, furloughed federal workers and community activists are telling GOP lawmakers to drop their ransom demands and end the hostage-taking of the economy. Dozens of rallies, marches and other demonstrations are set for this week, including several today, to demand an end to the shutdown.
Do cheaper products make up for lost jobs? America's workers have been answering "no" to that question for years. And the ranks of those who agree with us are growing. Recently, the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine, published its agreement as well.
A Pennsylvania man is suing digital retail giant Amazon.com because he says the company is putting its employees through rigorous security searches, without pay.The class action suit was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Sept.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Security Agency collects hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world, including many from Americans, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
