Labor
September 29, 2011 -
A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero.
September 27, 2011 -
Organized by postal workers' unions, the events are calling on Congress to pass a bill ending a pre-payment mandate for retiree health benefits that's pushing the agency into the red while threatening tens of thousands of public-sector jobs.
August 22, 2011 -
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Time for another Labor South round-up: Verizon workers in Virginia join walkout
October 7, 2008 -
Wall Street may be getting a bailout -- but not state unemployment relief funds, which according to Stateline.org are running dry across the country:
October 2, 2008 -
Blacksville #2 mine in Monongalia County, West Virginia shut down today after every union miner stayed home to protest Consol Energy mine owners who allowed the National Rifle Association to enter the worksite to shoot an anti-Obama video.
August 8, 2008 -
Facing South's bi-weekly listing features new books about the U.S. South and books written by Southern writers. Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press by Joseph B. Atkins, 280 pages, University Press of Mississippi (July 2008)
