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VANCE, Ala.—Some 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers in its Vance, Ala., factory complex will vote soon on whether to join the United Auto Workers, in the latest manifestation of the union’s strategy to break foreign “transplant” auto firms’ stranglehold on Southern workers.
WASHINGTON —Four media unions—The News Guild, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, and both Writers Guilds, East and West—urged Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
WASHINGTON —The Republican House majority on the Education and the Workforce Committee—ideologues for whom “Labor” in its title was a dirty word so they removed it--attacked workers again.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. —The Service Employees’ Michigan affiliate has won card-check recognition among 2,335 University of Michigan Medicine healthcare system workers, and they’re aiming, their website says, to add 2,000 more.
SEATTLE—Starbucks workers, in the midst of their organizing drive at the giant coffee chain, are taking the fight to a new level: The corporate board and its anti-union anti-worker policies.