Workers Protest for Better Pay: A Local Union and Fisher Island Service Workers Marched to Protest Low Wages and Unaffordable Health Insurance
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By Tania Valdemoro, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A labor march through Miami Beach -- with drum beating, hip shaking and cries of "Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole" -- ended abruptedly Friday night after police arrested a local union member who stormed the Fisher Island ferry.
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Â· Unanimous backing for action on public sector pay  Â· Postal workers announce new wave of disruption
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The United Food and Commercial Workers union protested the online grocery delivery company's decision to let go of scores of immigrant workers. A unionization vote is planned this weekend.
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PITTSBURGH -- Leaders of the nation&#39;s largest flight attendants union have unanimously voted to authorize a strike. They&#39;re upset at how members are being treated during troubled times for many carriers.
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Defying tough warnings from the authorities, illegally unionized government employees went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest the government&#39;s policy toward civil servants&#39; labor rights.
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No, tell us how you really feel. This Labor Day, workers are saying their biggest work problems are mostly economic. Their pay is not keeping up with increasing health-care costs or other increases in living expenses. They are disgruntled enough to look for work on the job. Retirement "security"...
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Tens of thousands of South African teachers, nurses and other public sector workers took to the country&#39;s streets yesterday to demand better wages in one of the biggest protests since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Hospital workers at 10 Sutter Health affiliates in the Bay Area plan to strike Dec. 1 to protest alleged unfair labor practices, unions representing workers announced Friday.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick's 6,500 unionized hospital workers  have voted 95.8 per cent in favour of a strike.
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More than 500 nurses and other public health care workers at the Alameda County Medical Center didn&#39;t report to work Monday to protest plans to cut up to 200 jobs and what union leaders allege are unfair labor practices.
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The health co-op says a strike isn&#39;t affecting patients&#39; access to care, but picketing union nurses offer a different opinion.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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The largest union in the AFL-CIO &#151; representing state and local government workers &#151; is beginning a multimillion-dollar effort to mobilize its members to vote, work for improved health care and organize more workers.
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A psychological war between Group Health and its striking employees became public Monday as pickets went up to start a five-day walkout.
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WASHINGTON - Several hundred union members marched outside the Labor Department to protest new overtime pay regulations taking effect Monday, with two senators pledging to try to roll them back when Congress returns from recess.    Protesters, many wearing union T-shirts, carried signs such as "President Bush: Hands off my overtime pay," and chanted, "Come on all you billionaires, give us wages that are fair."  "The fight is not over yet," said Republican Sen...
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Striking health workers aim for Labour support in their bid to block the sell-off of the NHS supply agency.
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Campaigners hold a march and rally in their efforts to save services at the Vale of Leven Hospital.