December 22, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on December 21.) LOS ANGELES — Ten weeks into a strike that has hit more than 800 grocery stores in Southern California, talks between the supermarkets’ operators and workers’ union came to an...
December 18, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The E-Activist Network distributed the following on December 18.) Dear Working Families e-Activist: More than 75,000 grocery workers will spend this holiday season on the picket line. These brave workers are holding the line for health care and good jobs in the face...
December 17, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Labor Heritage Foundation distributed the following on December 16.) Happy Holidays from the Labor Heritage Foundation! Here is another Union Holiday Song from Julie McCall. JOLLY OLD SAINT NICHOLAS Jolly old Saint Nicholas, lean your ear this way Listen to this...
December 16, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on December 14.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 667 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 135,864 ****HAPPY HOLIDAYS****The next edition of Work in Progress will publish on Dec. 19. Then WiP will take a holiday...
December 11, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse was posted on the New York Times website on December 11.) NEW YORK — In demonstrations and marches in 70 cities, the labor movement seized on International Human Rights Day yesterday to begin a campaign asserting that...
December 10, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 10.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kroger Co. and a grocery labor union have tentatively agreed to a contract, setting up a vote tomorrow by 3,300 workers in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky on whether to...
December 10, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Tom Ramstack was posted on the Washington Times website on December 10.) WASHINGTON — Labor unions plan to rally today in front of the Department of Labor as they seek to shore up their declining membership and finances. Union leaders...
December 10, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on December 10.) WASHINGTON — Wal-Mart employee Larry Lee says that since he started talking about forming a union a few months ago, he has been assigned to work alone in areas of the store away from his...
December 9, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Bob Fick on December 7.) BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons reported a 51 percent decline in third-quarter profit Friday as the strike by Southern California grocery workers siphoned an estimated $132 million from...
December 9, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on December 8.) LOS ANGELES — Labor negotiations between grocery companies and picketing Southern California grocery workers have broken off and no new talks are scheduled, officials said. About 70,000 grocery...
