AirTran pilots vote for strike authorization

Badger Foundry workers on strike

Published: September 21, 2012
Tags: Allied Worker's International Union, Badger Foundry, strike, unions

About 150 workers at a Winona foundry are on strike and are picketing their employer.

Union workers strike at Caterpillar plant

Published: May 1, 2012
Tags: Caterpillar, jobs, strike, unions

About 800 union workers who rejected Caterpillar Inc.’s latest contract offer walked off the job Tuesday at a plant in Joliet.

Striking machinists vote down Manitowoc Co. offer

Published: January 13, 2012
Tags: Local 516, Manitowoc Co., Manitowoc Cranes, strike, unions

Striking workers at Manitowoc Co. have voted against the company’s latest contract offer.

Talks resume between Manitowoc Co., strikers

Published: January 11, 2012
Tags: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 516, machinists, Manitowoc Co., strike, unions

Talks between the Manitowoc Co. and its striking union have resumed with a federal mediator.

Manitowoc Cranes hires strikers’ replacements

Published: December 7, 2011
Tags: Manitowoc Cranes, manufacturing, strike, union
Comments: 2

Manitowoc Cranes has notified its striking machinists that it’s hiring replacement workers to meet customer demand.

Machinists strike at The Manitowoc Co. crane division

Published: November 16, 2011
Tags: International Association of Machinists, machinists, Manitowoc Co., strike, unions

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Machinists are walking the picket line at The Manitowoc Co. Nearly 200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off the job this week at the company’s crane division after rejecting a four-year contract offer. The crane division employs about 800 people. Terms of the offer were [...]

Strike’s over, let the roadwork begin

Published: July 20, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, strike, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

If you’re keeping score at home, it’s Union 1, Contractors 1/2.

The perfect fix for Illinois’ striking construction workers

Published: July 13, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, strike, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Construction crews in Illinois are on strike and it’s slowing down some important projects across the northern part of the state.

Milwaukee sheet metal association locks out union workers

By Paul Snyder A Milwaukee contractors association representing 80 employers began a lockout Monday after contract negotiations with a local sheet metal workers’ union failed. Jeffrey Remsik, spokesman for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ Association of Milwaukee, said the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association Local Union 18 wants increased wages and benefits, and [...]