David Bacon Stories & Photographs

Unions

Strike Stories and Images


Union Stories

2006 

GETTING IT RIGHT -
Hotel Workers Beat the Lockout

2005

UNIONS AT WAR

LABOR NEEDS A RADICAL VISION

YOUR BOSS WILL HATE THIS BOOK
The Troublemaker's Handbook

LABOR NEEDS A HARD LEFT TURN

U.S. LABOR DEBATES DIRECTION

SERVICE EMPLOYEES PROPOSE A PROGRAM FOR CHANGE

THE MIDWEST UNION ROLLBACK

2004

THE UN-GROCERY STRIKE – UNIONS THINK STRATEGICALLY

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE IN SAN FRANCISCO’S HOTEL LOCKOUT

HOW THE LOCKOUT BACKFIRED

LABOR NEEDS “THAT VISION THING”

SIGN THE CARD, AND LOSE YOUR JOB – TSA’S NEW RULE FOR UNIONS

pre-2004

The Barbed Wire Straitjacket (12/4/02)

The Kill Floor Rebellion (6/6/02)

West Coast Docks Fall Silent as Workers are Locked Out (10/2/02)

Charleston - The Front Line for Labor Rights (7/15/01)

Leftwing Leadership in the AFL-CIO: Interview with Bill Fletcher (12/31/99)

Feds Charge Marriott With Massive Violations of Workers' Rights (4/26/99)

Four Years of Class War End in a Union Contract (4/2/99)

Unions and the Fight for Multi-Racial Democracy (2/6/99)

Union Officials Act to Remove Popular Latino Labor Leader from Office (1/31/99)

Union Wins Election at UCSF Stanford Healthcare (11/23/98)

The State of Our Unions (11/22/98)

 The Aftermath of Liverpool -- Where Was British Labor?: An Interview with Liverpool Dock Striker Mike Carden (11/15/98)

Stanford/UCSF Merger Gives Birth to Unionbusting (10/30/98)

Has Marriott's Neutrality Agreement Covered Union-Busting? (9/19/98)

Pt. Richmond Workers Find Organizing a Union is Like a War (3/27/98)

Book Review: "Workers in a Lean World" (2/24/98)

Sacramento Janitors 11-Day March for Justice (2/21/98)

Where Workers Have to Fight for a Paycheck (2/16/98)

Who Will Pay the Price of a New United Europe? (1/15/98)

Longshore Workers Chase Scab British Cargo Out to Sea (10/2/97)

Partnership in a War Zone (7/17/97)

West Coast Janitors Get Ready to Fight (2/28/97)

Los Angeles Janitors Leave Local 399 (2/12/97)

Book Review: "Audacious Democracy" (1997)

The New Face of Unionbusting (12/22/96)

Price Pfister Workers Go Hungry to Save Jobs (11/30/96)

The War in the Teamsters (8/24/96)

The U.S. Finally Has a Labor Party (6/11/96)

Labor Support For Clinton Hits a Rock: Oil Union Leader Criticizes the Administration's Indifference to Workers (3/5/96)

Immigrant Big-Rig Drivers Threaten to Shut Down the LA Harbor (2/20/96)

Putting Wages on the Ballot in November (1/27/96)

Will the AFL-CIO's New Leaders Change Its Old Cold War Policies? (10/29/95)

 The AFL-CIO In Moscow: The Cold War That Never Ends (6/23/95)

 The Newspaper Wars Reach San Jose (11/28/94)

Organizing Silicon Valley - Unions Begin the Biggest Job of All (1/19/94)

Organizing Silicon Valley's High Tech Workers

The Rising From Below: The Coming Labor Earthquake in Los Angeles (11/29/95)

Photographs

East Bay Immigrant Workers Fight for their Rights

Security Guards Strike

Security Guards Organize

Airport Workers Food Distribution

Pacific Steel Protest

Janitors Protest at Ikea

Healthcare Workers Anti-Trusteeship Rally

Smithfield Workers 1

Smithfield Workers 2

2006 Contract Campaign Kickoff
Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union

HERE Local 2
Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union
Part 1

HERE Local 2
Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union
Part 2

HERE Local 2
Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union
Part 3

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