Alexandra Bradbury

First Contracts: How to Avoid Delay, Disappointment and Decertification

The day a new union is certified, the clock starts ticking—and the crafty boss starts stalling. But it is possible to beat the employer at this game.

MLK-Themed Action Perturbs Cablevision Managers

Workers marked the holiday and the one-year anniversary of their union vote—and one of the coldest days of the year—with action outside a Brooklyn garage.

Communities Defend Their Post Offices One by One

Four endangered Bay Area post offices will stay open after all, and the subcontracting of California postal trucker jobs is on hold. Those victories were the latest in a string of local wins for grassroots activists across the country.

Laundry Workers Save the Weekend

Workers at a Portland laundry were scheduled the same way for 30 years--until the company announced it was switching everyone. The contract was no help, and the plant’s only steward had just been wrongfully fired.

New York Fast Food Workers Walk Off the Job

“Good morning! I’m on strike!” shouted McDonald’s worker Darryl Young this morning. Fast food workers across New York City staged a one-day strike today, calling for a raise and an end to anti-union retaliation.

When Postmasters Attack

With customers and workers up in arms at his original plan to close nearly 4,000 post offices and half the nation’s mail sorting plants, the postmaster general has responded to pressure by postponing some closings and spreading the pain.

Democrats Dodge Minimum Wage Increases, Activists Undeterred

Majorities of voters, even Republicans, support raising the minimum wage, and politicians who oppose it sound mean and out of touch. But no one is running on it this year.

Walmart Warehouse Strikers Return to Work with Full Back Pay

Strikers have returned to work with full back pay at Walmart’s giant warehouse in Elwood, Illinois. They had struck for three weeks over their employer's illegal retaliation for on-the-job organizing.

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