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Waste Company Locks Out Teamsters in Bid to Eliminate Pensions

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. May 15, 2012.

Teamsters Local 215 says it offered to extend the current contract into the future, but Republic insisted on eliminating pensions and replacing them with a 401(k).

Sotheby’s Art Handlers' Lockout Enters Tenth Month As Auction House Makes Record Sales

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. May 9, 2012.

“Sotheby’s is selling The Scream–an artful interpretation of human anguish and suffering–while they continue to create anguish and suffering among their own workforce."

Teamsters Score 3-to-1 Election Victory in Nearly Union-Free Industry

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. April 15, 2012.

The 46-to-15 vote is a major step forward in the Teamsters' campaign to transform the overwhelmingly nonunion port trucking industry.

How FreshDirect Delivers Misery Along With Your Groceries--And How Workers and the Community are Fighting Back

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. March 4, 2012.

The upscale grocery delivery service pays less than $9 an hour, has faced discrimination complaints, and is a union-buster--so why is New York giving it a handout?

Opulent Sothebys' Appalling Treatment of Its Workers Is a Perfect Symbol of the Out of Touch 1%

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. November 10, 2011.

What better symbol of the 1 percent's treatment of the 99 then one of the world's most opulent institutions refusing to bargain with its workers?

Sandy Pope Vs. History, Round 1: The Fight For Teamster Leadership Heats Up

Mariya Strauss, AlterNet. July 19, 2011.

Can Sandy Pope take on years of union history to become the first woman president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters?

How Unions Gave My Redneck Family a Chance at the American Dream

Joe Bageant, AlterNet. June 22, 2009.

Restoring dignity to laboring America won't be easy. It won't be pretty, and it won't be "within the system." Because the system is the problem.