Labor News

Nearly 3,000 Boeing workers in South Carolina will get a chance to vote for union representation February 15th. The International Association of Machinists filed for the NLRB election inJ January.

IndustriALL, a global union federation, is wishing the IAM well in the election.

The IAM had scheduled an election in 2015 but withdrew before it happened in the face of an intense anti-union campaign from state politicians and others. This time there will be no withdrawal.

Fight For $15 workers like Chicago area Hardee's worker Robert Sunderlin are struggling for living wages and union rights. The last thing workers need according to the Fight For $15 is a fast food CEO as Labor Secretary.

They are protesting Andy Puzder's nomination as Labor Secretary Monday at Hardee's HQ in St. Louis, CKE corporate HQ in Anaheim California and a couple dozen other cities.

Sunderlin urges all workers struggling with low wages to join the movement for $15 an hour and a union.

The Great Flint Sitdown Strike is 80 years old. It's like a Valentine from the past. Reminding us that even in the darkest hours working people have the right stuff to organize and win.

The Great Flint Sitdown strike of '36-'37 against General Motors won recognition for the UAW.

The global labor union federation Education International is warning that we are entering a geopolitical era where extreme right political neo-fascist movements - from the U.S. to Europe - are a real threat.

Education International General Secretary Fred Van Leeuwen speaking on Canada's Radio Labour.

Mesa flight attendants are taking a strike vote later this month. The AFA-CWA represents Mesa workers have been in labor contract talks for years that are now stalled.

The union says they are underpaid compared to other flight attendants flying for United and American Airlines. Mesa is based in Phoenix.

AFA-CWA represents 700 Mesa flight attendants. If they vote to authorize a strike the workers can't call the strike until the National Medication Board must declares talks at an impasse.

Michigan Republicans running state government are about to try again to cut retiree medical care and pensions for public employees.

Mark Docherty is President of the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union. He says Michigan Republicans aren't looking for ways to fund the pension promises made to public employees, they're just looking to slash the benefits.

[Mark Docherty]: "I want them to come with a thoughtful solution on how we can maintain them. We want to see pre-funding.

Despite an unprecedented massive public outcry against her, billionaire charter school crusader Betsy Devos was confirmed as Education Secretary.

Vice-President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 U.S. Senate vote tie to confirm her.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called it a sad day for children. But Weingarten says there's a silver lining in the confirmation battle: an engaged highly vocal public supporting public education.

Republicans in Congress want to weaken the National Labor Relations Act. They want to amend it with a national so-called Right To Work bill introduced Wednesday.

It attacks unions financially by outlawing union security clauses in collective bargaining agreements. Those clauses - voted on by workers at union shops - require workers covered by union contracts to pay dues or fees to support the collective bargaining efforts.

Nobody gets forced to join a union, that's already illegal.

Some workers at Trump's Washington D.C. hotel are joining UNITE-HERE.

Trump Las Vegas hotel workers had to fight a long battle against Trump to finally get the hotel to stop breaking labor law and bargain contract.

The Washington Trump hotel workers are members of UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents 6500 hotel workers in the District of Columbia.

The National Labor Relations Board says two charter schools in New Orleans are not exempt from federal labor law.

The NLRB says International High School of New Orleans and Lusher Charter School must begin bargaining with teachers and staff who voted to form unions.

United Teachers of New Orleans President Jim Randels.