PHILADELPHIA (PAI) After a discussion that ranged from practical workers’ rights to Biblical moral precepts, AFL-CIO convention delegates voted to “redouble” the federation’s campaign to win documented status for all migrants inside the U.S., along with those seeking asylum and entry.
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WASHINGTON Jean Kitongo, an emergency room nurse at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., was out on a picket line on April 11 during a 24-hour forced strike there. She’s got a lot of company, for picketing and often for forced walkouts, coast to coast.
STUART’S DRAFT, Va. Despite rampant corporate labor law-breaking and insults to the union they seek to join, some 1,300 workers at the Hershey’s chocolate plant in Stuart’s Draft, Va.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (PAI) The wave of worker activism the AFL-CIO nicknamed “Striketober,” then “Strikesgiving,” is continuing well past the holidays and into late February, as some 365 Machinists members at Eaton’s factory in Davenport, Iowa, were forced to walk at midnight February 18.