Tuesday striking port truckers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach joined a coalition of community, labor and clergy leaders for a rally and march through Long beach with elected officials. The strike is part of a long campaign by port truckers, backed by the Teamsters, to end mis-classification of truckers as independent contractors instead of employees.

Transit workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are up in arms over city plans to bring in a private company to operate a new fleet of streetcars.  The Amalgamated Transit Union is calling on the city to staff the streetcar system with workers from the County Transit System, one of few major employers in the city that provides jobs to a predominantly minority workforce.  Instead, the city is currently considering front-runner Transdev, a Fre

The Chicago Teachers Union will vote this Fall on whether or not to approve a merger with The Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers. A thousand union teachers from 32 charter schools in the Chicago area voted to join the Chicago Teachers Union. Now members of the Chicago teachers Union will have their chance to vote on whether to approve the merger with the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers.

Two thousand IBEW Local 3 technicians have been on strike for over nine weeks at Spectrum cable in New York City and New Jersey.

On the New York City picket lines WIN interviewed this striker, who chose not to give his name, about the issues in the strike.

When neo-Nazis and fascists held their free speech rally in Portland Oregon just days after two people were brutally murdered trying to defend muslim women from a neo-nazi, the regional Carpenters union knew which side it was on.