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Dockworkers at the Port of Mobile joined about 45,000 union strikers from Maine to Texas who walked off the job for the first time since 1977.

Widespread strikes at AT&T are being predicted to expand to both coasts. The Communications Workers of America announced Sept. 13 that its ongoing strike at AT&T Southeast, already the largest in the United States, may spread even further. Workers in Alabama first walked off the job in an alleged unfair labor practice strike nearly four weeks ago.

Alabama lawmakers have voted to withhold economic incentive dollars from companies that voluntarily recognize a union without holding a secret ballot election. The legislation would impact future incentive packages.

A majority of workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest plant in the United States, MBUSI in Vance have signed union cards in support of joining the United Auto Workers.

Workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant outside Tuscaloosa, went public with their campaign to join the UAW. Over 30% of the plant’s workforce have signed union authorization cards.

March of this year marked the end of what was called the longest strike in Alabama history. Coal miners for the Warrior Met company in Brookwood put down their picket signs and resumed the job that some had done for decades. However, these workers say they got something other than a victory at the bargaining table.

Workers at a Mercedes-Benz supplier in Tuscaloosa have rejected a bid to join the United Auto Workers union.Employees at turned down the UAW proposal by a…

Amendment 7 on Alabama's ballot looks like a simple measure to preserve the right to a secret ballot. In reality, it injects voters into a battle between…