Today in 1999 A majority of the 5,000 textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic 25-year fight.
• Port employers ask NLRB to force dockworkers to bargain • 2nd Apple Store union secures contract • How humanoid robots will disrupt global labor • National Symphony Orchestra strikes the Kennedy Center • Amazon warehouse workers continue to make history • 7 corporations doing the most to undermine democracy worldwide • Charted: How American tech workers feel about joining a union • Kroger/Albertsons merger threatens to intensify price gouging • Boeing union members angry they lost their traditional pension plan • Teamster locals, defying ‘neutrality’ of national leadership, endorse Harris
General Membership Meetings Members in attendance at the May meetings voted to suspend membership meetings for June, July, and August.