Category Archives: Wins
Victory for Castlewood Country Club Workers!
Matthew McDermott February 22, 2013 10:31 am
Three years after their employer locked them out, UNITE HERE!-represented employees at Pleasanton, CA’s Castlewood Country Club are back to work with a new contract. In a stunning show of … Read More
Category: Featured, Wins
Baltimore Hyatt Workers Hired Back, Free to Fight for a Union
Matthew McDermott February 18, 2013 8:34 am
By: Matthew McDermott
The Inner Harbor Hyatt Regency hotel in Baltimore, MD has settled an unfair labor practice charge alleging that it illegally fired three workers who were agitating for … Read More
Category: Wins
The Just Crust Opens Under Worker-Owned Model
Matthew McDermott February 14, 2013 8:23 am
By: Matthew McDermott
Bankrupt Boston pizza parlor The Upper Crust was once a popular hangout for Harvard students, but those same students boycotted the store after the DOL and a … Read More
Category: Wins
UPMC Agrees to Hire Back Workers Fired for Organizing Activity
Matthew McDermott February 11, 2013 9:30 am
The recent NLRB complaint alleging a whopping 80 labor violations against Southwestern Pennsylvania healthcare giant UPMC was settled Friday. The SEIU, which is attempting to unionize administrative and non-medical workers … Read More
Category: Wins
For Truckers, Huge Victory at the Ports
Matthew McDermott January 11, 2013 9:38 am
In recent months, the nation’s ports have shown themselves to be centers of union power, with 10,000 Longshoremen in Southern California striking to help clerical workers get a fair contract… Read More
Category: Actions, Featured, Wins
KGTV ABC10 Workers Ratify Contract
Sierra Feldner-Shaw January 7, 2013 9:29 am
By: Dennis Csillag, NABET-CWA local 54
The nearly 7-year battle for a new contract for workers at KGTV ABC10 in San Diego has finally come to an end. NABET-CWA Local … Read More
Category: Breaking, Wins
Striking Nursing Home Workers To Return To Work
Matthew McDermott December 13, 2012 7:29 am
A district judge ordered Connecticut-based nursing home operator Healthbridge to hire back 600 striking workers under the terms of their old contract. The ruling, issued yesterday by District Judge Robert … Read More
Category: Wins