November 5, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on November 4.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 579 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 128,463 TALKING TRASH–Workers at BFI’s San Carlos, Calif., facility defied management’s anti-union...
November 5, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Nicholas Grudin appeared on the Los Angeles Daily News website on November 4.) LOS ANGELES — Ralphs stores throughout Los Angeles continued to see business surge Monday, a result of the union’s decision to remove picket lines from...
November 3, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Los Angeles Times posted the following article by Kurt Streeter on its website on November 3.) As striking drivers for a private company that contracts with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed Sunday to go back to work, the leader of the MTA’s...
October 31, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Nancy Cleeland and Melinda Fulmer was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on October 31.) LOS ANGELES — National labor leaders threw their financial and strategic muscle behind striking and locked-out supermarket workers in...
October 30, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Thomas Lee appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on October 29.) ST. LOUIS — Negotiators for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655 and the area’s three largest grocery chains have reached a tentative settlement...
October 30, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Alex Veiga on October 29.) SAN DIEGO — Two federal lawsuits have been filed on behalf of 70,000 striking Southern California grocery workers in an attempt to keep three supermarket chains from ending...
October 30, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on October 30.) WASHINGTON — About 85,000 grocery workers nearing their third week off the job without paychecks are getting a financial boost from the AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions. Organized labor...
October 30, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Steven Pearlstein appeared on the Washington Post?s website on October 29.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to supermarket giants Safeway, Albertson’s and Kroger, the competitive threat from Wal-Mart makes it impossible for them to...
October 29, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Gary Gentile on October 28.) LOS ANGELES — More than half of striking pharmacists at Vons and Pavilions stores in Southern California have crossed picket lines to return to work as the grocery strike shows...
October 28, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on October 27.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 1,141 New members reported in WIP to date: 127,884 WINNING IN W.VA.–More than 850 workers at Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center won a voice on the job recently with...
