The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance reached a tentative agreement Feb. 1 on a union contract covering all 15 East Coast ports and nearly 14,000 port workers. They were facing a Feb. 6 deadline and potential coastwide strike if negotiations had broken off for a third time. The original contract expiration [...]
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Longshore union settles new contract on East Coast
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Dante Strobino February 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Charlotte, N.C., city workers win important victory
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Dante Strobino January 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The City Council in Charlotte, N.C., voted 6-5 on Jan. 14 to approve payroll dues deduction for all five city worker unions with no membership restrictions. Charlotte will join three other North Carolina cities, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, in granting this right to municipal employee organizations. North Carolina is the least unionized state in the country, [...]
Struggle heats up against racist frame-ups in North Carolina
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Dante Strobino January 18, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Durham, N.C. — On Jan. 10, a big rally took place here outside Durham County Jail to free Carlos Riley Jr., an African-American man who is in jail with $1.5 million bond and nine pending charges, including allegedly shooting a cop who actually shot himself. This comes after weekly rallies every Tuesday in December to drop [...]
Labor, youth protest right-wing governor
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Dante Strobino January 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Raleigh, N.C. — On Jan. 5, activists gathered in Raleigh to protest the inauguration of the new ultra-right-wing Republican governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, and to draw attention to his appointment of Art Pope as the state’s chief budget writer. Protesters referred to Pope as McCrory’s “Puppet Master” during a mock public ceremony swearing [...]
Charleston, S.C., port shutdown blocks ship loaded with Walmart textiles
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Dante Strobino December 20, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Charleston, S.C., Dec. 20 — At 6:00 a.m. today, more than 25 community members and union members from across South Carolina and North Carolina held an informational picket in front of the Wando Terminal of the Port of Charleston. This protest helped bring attention to the ship being docked that morning — the Maersk Carolina — [...]
Why Walmart is vulnerable to workers’ organizing
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Dante Strobino November 29, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Excerpted from a talk by Dante Strobino, an organizer with United Electrical Workers, at the WWP National Conference on Nov. 17. He was in Elwood, Ill., during the Walmart workers’ strike and rally. Walmart, the world’s largest private sector employer, has been entirely union-free in the United States since its founding in Arkansas 50 years [...]
Striking warehouse workers & supporters shut down Walmart warehouse hub for day
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Dante Strobino October 12, 2012 » Add more comments.
Bulletin: As this story went to print, the 21-day strike came to an end. The striking workers at Walmart’s Elwood warehouse won their main demand: the company agreed to stop illegal retaliation against workers protesting bad conditions. The workers will return to work with full pay for all days they were on strike. Elwood, Ill. [...]
Southern labor hosts assembly: ‘Build a workers’ alliance!’
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Dante Strobino September 13, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Charlotte, N.C. — Over 300 Southern workers, trade unionists and community allies gathered for the Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3, Labor Day, the opening day of the Democratic National Convention. The Wedgewood Baptist Church was packed and supporters had to stand beside the pews. There was a feeling in the air that Southern labor [...]
Organizing for Southern Workers Assembly
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Dante Strobino August 29, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Charleston, S.C. — Labor leaders in Charleston, S.C., hosted a public meeting at the International Longshore Association union hall to build for the Southern Workers Assembly, to be held in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 3, the day after the March on Wall Street South. Organized by Donna Dewitt, retired former president of South Carolina AFL-CIO, [...]
Textile workers built unions, led strikes and and fought racism
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Dante Strobino August 20, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Eyes on North Carolina Textile workers built unions, led major strikes and fought racism starting in the 1920s in the South’s largest industry. The heaviest concentration of textile mills was in North Carolina. Charlotte was the Southern industry’s center point since its inception during the post-Reconstruction era, with many factories ringing its perimeter, within a [...]
