text: Josh Eidelson - Profile - In These Times
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  WISCONSIN—The union campaign at Palermo's Pizza in Milwaukee, which offers a test case in integrating labor, immigrant and community-based organizing, was dealt a painful blow last week... MORE
  Working · November 28, 2012
  Days before a threatened strike, nurses at New York's Lenox Hill hospital secured a deal with management on a new three-year contract. Under the agreement, reached November 1 and ratified November 5, nurse-to-patient... MORE
  Working · November 12, 2012
  NEW YORK CITY—National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark Pearce says his agency could pursue new remedies to punish employers who retaliate against undocumented immigrants for organizing. Last year Pearce... MORE
  Working · October 29, 2012
  NEWARK—Six days after the city's schools superintendent and teachers' union president announced a tentative contract agreement, a group of union members gathered Wednesday night to discuss how to derail... MORE
  Working · October 26, 2012
  NEWARK, N.J.—At a Thursday press conference, the president of the city teachers union and the superintendent of schools signed a tentative agreement on a path-breaking new contract. Both sides... MORE
  Working · October 22, 2012
  Four months into a bitter strike, labor groups are asking whether Palermo's Pizza deserves its millions in public subsidies. In a report released Tuesday and a legislative hearing Wednesday, strikers and... MORE
  Working · October 18, 2012
  Six months after Los Angeles-area port truckers won a rare union election in a nearly union-free industry, contract negotiations have hit the rocks. The union, Teamsters Local 848, charges that... MORE
  Working · October 12, 2012
  At 2 a.m. this morning, the union for many New England janitors announced that a tentative agreement had been reached on a new contract for 14,000 workers. The deal came just after the midnight... MORE
  Working · October 1, 2012
  Advocates cried foul last week after a judge's ruling effectively prevented a paid sick leave measure from reaching the November ballot in Orange County, Florida. The ruling, issued after an emergency... MORE
  Working · September 24, 2012
  At last week's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Democrats ratified a platform which once again commits to strengthen and defend workers' right to organize. As before, the platform's... MORE