Today in 2004 Nearly 100,000 unionized SBC Communications Inc. workers begin a four-day strike to protest the local phone giant’s latest contract offer.
• Senate passes new Nafta, but much work remains • Getting the real facts: 10 journalism brands to follow • Improving federal law for pregnant workers • WNBA and players reach tentative 8-year labor deal • Steelworkers sue EPA to save anti-chemical disaster rule • State legislative staff in DE first in nation to seek to unionize • Why everyone should care who the new postmaster general is • FedEx mounts big-money push to counter unionization by US workers • One astounding chart shows why economic inequality has increased • House to vote on sweeping labor law reform by mid-February
General Membership Meetings Members in attendance at the May meetings voted to suspend membership meetings for June, July, and August.