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Znet Article Slaughter: Detroit Fast Food Workers Join Strike Wave

Znet Article, May, 12 2013 Jane Slaughter
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“We work too hard to be paid minimum wage”

Znet Article Slaughter: Fight for May Day’s Two Traditions

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Jane Slaughter
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Long hours, short hours, or variable schedules don’t just make life miserable for the individual worker and her family. They also make it harder to take collective action

Znet Article Slaughter: Can Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?

Znet Article, April, 07 2013 Jane Slaughter
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With about the same workforce, the plant is producing 50 percent more tires than before it was closed

Znet Article Slaughter: Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike

Znet Article, April, 04 2013 Jane Slaughter
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'If the owners don’t want it, let’s run it ourselves'

Znet Article Slaughter: Coercive Wellness Programs Create New Headaches

Znet Article, January, 10 2013 Jane Slaughter
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Employers who run workers ragged with stress, speedup, and forced overtime suddenly want to encourage them to be “well”

Znet Article Slaughter: Nissan Workers Seek Fair Shake in Mississippi Plant

Znet Article, August, 06 2012 Jane Slaughter
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United Auto Workers President Bob King says organizing foreign-owned auto plants is make-or-break for the shrinking union

Znet Article Slaughter: UE Occupies Chicago Window Plant Again, and Wins Reprieve

Znet Article, February, 26 2012 Jane Slaughter
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UE Local 1110 members took over the Serious Materials plant after being told by local management that the factory would close immediately

Znet Article Slaughter: Ontario Caterpillar Workers Locked Out for Refusing Half Pay

Znet Article, February, 02 2012 Jane Slaughter
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Cat locked out the 465 workers at its Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive factory in London, Ontario, on December 31

Znet Article Slaughter: Toronto Mayor Set to Lock Out City Workers

Znet Article, January, 30 2012 Jane Slaughter
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The mayor of Toronto seeks to privatize city services and is taking on the largest public sector locals in Canada to do so

Znet Article Slaughter: Longshore Union Settles Grain Dispute as Confrontation Loomed

Znet Article, January, 29 2012 Jane Slaughter
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In a surprise settlement reached Monday, the Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) and transnational grain exporter EGT announced they’d settled their legal disputes

Znet Article Slaughter: Occupy Wake-Up Call Caps Remarkable Year

Znet Article, January, 01 2012 Jane Slaughter
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Labor needs to relearn an old lesson: We make progress when we disrupt business as usual

Znet Article Slaughter: Campaign Accelerates To Recall Wisconsin Governor

Znet Article, December, 19 2011 Jane Slaughter
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Wisconsin unionists and thousands of others announced today they have gathered 507,000 signatures in four weeks in their drive to force Walker into a recall

Znet Article Slaughter: Strike Wave in China Puts Heat On Official Union

Znet Article, December, 08 2011 Jane Slaughter
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China faced its second wave of strikes in two years, as thousands of workers in industrial southern provinces walked out this fall

Znet Article Slaughter: Rolling Sympathy Strikes Harass Food-Service Giant

Znet Article, November, 26 2011 Jane Slaughter
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Rolling strikes apparently kept management off guard

Znet Article Slaughter: What Can Unions Learn from the Occupy Movement?

Znet Article, November, 18 2011 Jane Slaughter
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The welcoming reaction of union leaders and members to the Occupy movement has been heartening

Znet Article Slaughter: Chicago Warehouse Workers Navigate Maze of Contractors to Organize

Znet Article, November, 14 2011 Jane Slaughter
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In its organizing thus far, WWJ has found enough stability in the workforce to form an organization that can win gains

Znet Article Slaughter: Can Sandy Pope Win 3-Way Teamsters Race?

Znet Article, November, 06 2011 Jane Slaughter
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Teamsters are voting for their national officers in a mail ballot that will determine whether the union’s leadership is jolted to life—or remains asleep at the wheel

Znet Article Slaughter: Teamsters Spread Sympathy Strikes

Znet Article, November, 04 2011 Jane Slaughter
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Teamsters are spreading sympathy strikes across the country at the nation’s second-largest food services company

Znet Article Slaughter: Deadline for Rail Strike Looms, but Delay Is Likely

Znet Article, October, 06 2011 Jane Slaughter
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As the clock ticks down to a midnight Thursday strike deadline, railroad workers aren’t holding their breaths despite a 97 percent strike vote by the Locomotive Engineers union

Znet Article Rohar: Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain to Protect Jobs

Znet Article, September, 09 2011 Evan Rohar
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The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded

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