Labor
August 27, 2013 -
The NAACP partners with Nissan, which is fighting union organizing efforts at plants in Mississippi and Tennessee? What would Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers say? And Walmart promoting American-made products? Really?
August 22, 2013 -
As the 50th anniversary of the historic march nears, there are a few points that cannot be overlooked if we want to honor its true story, writes Bill Fletcher Jr.
August 20, 2013 -
A union organizer and a third-generation organizer working in the South offer their ideas for building a culture of unionism in the region -- or anywhere the idea of collective development and exercise of power has waned.
August 16, 2013 -
In their race to the bottom, Walmart and other companies seeking the cheapest labor are looking beyond China, Bangladesh and Cambodia to military-ruled Myanmar.
August 9, 2013 -
College students from across the South are playing a key role in helping workers form a union at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss.
July 31, 2013 -
The Arkansas-based retail giant is disciplining and firing workers who participated in a strike in June. While the firings are almost certainly illegal, congressional Republicans have declawed the national labor board, leaving it without a quorum to conduct business.
July 22, 2013 -
Challenging the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky Southerner, residents of North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia are taking to the streets and standing up to the right-wing corporate agenda.
