Articles Tagged with ''labor unions''

CANTON, MS—A Baptist minister in Jackson, MS, is leading efforts to unionize Nissan’s assembly plant here.

LANSING, MI—Michigan’s state House has passed bills giving both public and private employees so-called right-to-work protections.

LAKESHORE, ON—Union workers at Integram Seating, which assembles the seats for Chrysler minivans, have voted in favor of going on strike, if necessary.

CHESWICK, PA—A strike at Curtiss-Wright Corp.’s assembly plant here has concluded and IBEW union members are returning to work.

JOLIET, IL—Caterpillar Inc. has reached a tentative six-year deal with the union representing almost 800 striking workers at the company’s assembly plant here. The workers had been on strike since early May seeking better wages and health care benefits.

WINDSOR, ON—CAW members at Chrysler’s assembly plant here have voted almost unanimously in support of a strike as a way to back workers’ contact demands. The union’s expires in mid-September.

WASHINGTON—Joyce D. Miller, who rose from an assembly line job to the top ranks of American labor as the first woman on the AFL-CIO executive council, died June 30 in Washington. She was 84.

SAO PAULO, Brazil—A Brazilian union carried out a 24-hour strike on Monday at the GM assembly plant here to protest dwindling output.

FORT WORTH, TX—Lockheed has reached a tentative deal with a union that has been on strike for eight weeks at the defense contractor’s assembly plant here.

PEORIA—While one Illinois assembly plant boils over with anger and adversity, another is celebrating a new beginning with tears and cheers.