March 13, 2013 Joe Maniscalco United Food and Commercial Workers [UFCW] representatives negotiating a contract on behalf of meat department workers at Trade Fair supermarkets in Queens County, butted heads with
March 12, 2013 Diane Cohen, DC LaborPress Bureau Washington DC – UNITE HERE Local 40 Welcomes New Members at Vancouver International Airport. Over 300 Vancouver International Airport concession workers employed
March 8, 2013 Charles Hamilton, Funds Administrator Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW is partnering with the American Cancer Society to help researchers learn how to prevent cancer We all
February 14, 2013 Marc Bussanich While the city’s economy has been recuperating from the Great Recession, low-wage workers in the city face enormous difficulties in making ends meet in one
February 13, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco The president's pronouncement that the existing federal minimum wage should be boosted to $9 an hour – and tied to inflation – is heartening
February 12, 2013 By Joe Maniscalco It took 13 weeks, but the dozen “washeros” who were fired from the Sunny Day Car Wash in the Bronx after protesting withheld wages,
February 11, 2013 Colby Harris, OUR Walmart Member Dallas, Texas Walmart is at it again – using intimidation tactics to keep Walmart workers from coming together to speak out for
February 7, 2013 Marc Bussanich and Joe Maniscalco In January 2012, 300 field technicians working for Cablevision in Brooklyn voted to join the Communications Workers of America. On the one-year anniversary
February 6, 2013 Marc Bussanich and Joe Maniscalco Three months after car wash workers at Lage Car Wash in SoHo joined the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the owner
News from UFCW February 5, 2013 Caremark and the United Food & Commercial Workers have signed a cooperation agreement giving CVS/pharmacy employees at approximately 500 stores in the metropolitan Los
