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Alabama Arise and partners announce Alabama Workers’ Week of Action

The five-day series is set to blend remembrance and organizing, with events across Alabama spotlighting labor history, worker power and economic justice.

April 27, 2026

Hyundai-Kia supply chain included in “Dirty Dozen” list of dangerous employers

The supply chain is “linked to worker deaths, child labor, unsafe conditions, and systemic labor exploitation,” a nonprofit’s report alleges.

April 24, 2026

Lawsuit filed against Hyundai and Kia over alleged “severe labor exploitation”

Hyundai called the allegations in the lawsuit filed by Jobs to Move America “baseless” in a Thursday statement.

November 14, 2025

Work release programs depress wages at Hyundai suppliers, study suggests

The Columbia Labor Lab study appears to show increasing plants’ share of incarcerated workers reduces the wages of free workers.

November 7, 2025

Workers at an electric bus plant in Anniston unionized and won double-digit raises

Thanks to a new law, New Flyer would’ve faced severe penalties if they’d voluntarily recognized the union just months later.

May 22, 2024

Virtual event to focus on labor rights in the South

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is to be featured in the virtual event, to be held Nov. 4.

October 26, 2021

Game Changer Award awarded to Birmingham native Erica Iheme

A graduate of Alabama A&M, Iheme spent 17 years as an organizer and union builder throughout the United States.

October 13, 2021

Alabama’s corporate subsidies cost $4 billion over three decades, report says

Officials exchange tax breaks for long-term benefits, but the state does so without letting taxpayers know as much as other states do.

August 13, 2021

Report: Alabama’s incentives to businesses lack transparency, accountability

Between 1993 and 2020, Alabama lawmakers gave away more than $4 billion in subsidies to corporations.

August 11, 2021

Jobs to move America

Before COVID-19 swept the country, public officials celebrated Alabama’s 2.7 percent unemployment rate: it was a record low for our state, and lower than the national average. But statistics never tell the full story. Were the jobs Alabamians working good ones? With paid sick, family, and medical leave to protect workers from COVID-19? Were people … Continued

April 3, 2020