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UFCW starts new organizing drive at Wal-Mart
After a five-year break to take stock and launch a consumer revolt against the giant retailer Wal-Mart, the United Food and Commercial Workers is starting a new organizing drive at the notoriously anti-union company.
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UFCW 789 plans rally at Best Buy corporate headquarters
On Monday, April 27, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 is holding a "Shame on Best Buy Rally" in Bloomington.
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Canadian workers achieve first-ever contract at Wal-Mart
Some 180 workers at the Wal-Mart store in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec, became the first North American employees of the monster anti-union retailer to achieve a union contract.
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National unions form coordinating committee; AFL-CIO president announces retirement plans
AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney formally told top leaders of the federation that he will retire at the AFL-CIO Convention in September. At the same time, Sweeney, Change To Win leaders and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel announced creation of the National Labor Coordinating Committee, a group of presidents of the nation’s 12 largest unions.
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Unions step up mass mobilization for Employee Free Choice Act
The nation’s unions stepped up their mass mobilization to pressure Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, working over the two-week legislative recess to lobby lawmakers for the pro-worker bill. They unveiled a new round of commercials to run nationwide for it, while enlisting African-American leaders as key allies.
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Top union leaders ramp up support for Delta organizing drive
Flanked by supporters from organized labor and elected officials, the leaders of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers vowed to unionize the world’s largest air carrier, Delta Airlines.
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Workers tell lawmakers of benefits as Employee Free Choice Act is introduced
The Employee Free Choice Act, introduced in Congress Tuesday, would give workers the opportunity to bargain for a better life – a much-needed reform in this time of economic distress, workers, economists and scholars said.
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Biden, Solis to meet with AFL-CIO leaders this week
Closed-door discussions with Vice President Joe Biden and new Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, plus brainstorming on how to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, head the agenda at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting this week in Fort Lauderdale.
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Union membership grows in 2008
For the second year in a row, the percentage of workers who belong to a union grew, according to the annual survey of union membership released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.