The National Labor Relations Board ruled that the Longshoreman’s Union (ILWU) violated federal law with slowdowns and work stoppages at the Port of Portland in 2012 and 2013. The Union is now on the hook for millions of dollars of damages as they are being sued by the Port and the Company that runs Terminal…

Two thousand workers at a manufacturing plant in Northern Wisconsin have been walking the picket line since mid-November. Such a strike would have been commonplace a decade ago. Nowadays, it’s a rarity. While labor has become adept at hit-and-run publicity strikes like the “Fight for $15” one-day stunts, major strikes of over 1,000 workers are…

When over 1,000 demonstrators showed up on the Venetian Casino Resort’s property in Las Vegas, the casino believed they were trespassers and asked them to leave. The resort then asked the police to intervene. The union filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the Venetian interfered with the…

In the 1950’s there were an average of 352 large-scale work stoppages each year. A large-scale work stoppage is defined as at least 1000 workers walking off the job. 1952 saw the most large-scale strikes – 470 – when 2.7 million workers took part in workplace stoppages. Since then, the number of strikes has fallen…

An Illinois telephone company suspended a worker after he grabbed his crotch in a move obviously intended for a female non-union employee to see. According to the company, the female employee was upset by the incident, and the act was a form of sexual harassment, an implied threat of violence, and an indicator of future…

Employee Zamora was part of a group of non-union employees who went on strike to protest the speed of a conveyor belt at the meatpacking plant where he worked. A few weeks later, the same employees planned to strike again. About 30 minutes before the strike commenced, Zamora was called into his supervisor’s office and…