Labour Start's Photo of the Year

Here it is -- the winner of the 2010 Labour Start photo contest. Gerard Correa took this photo of farm workers waiting to start the Pilgrimage for Freedom on Thanksgiving. They were walking from Leamington to Windsor in Ontario, Canada, to claim their rights. 

See the rest of the entries here (TeamsterNation especially likes the photo of track work at night, but maybe that's because of our brothers and sisters in the BMWED.)

Vote for labor photo of the year

Labour Start's 2009 Winner

You have until Dec. 31 to vote for the best photo by a worker photographer in the Labour Start annual contest. Click here to cast your vote.

Six days 'til deadline for Labour Photo of the Year

This is the first-ever winner of Labour Start's annual photo contest. It was taken by Robert Day, a branch secretary with the British public sector PCS in Birmingham, England. The photo shows trade unionists marching through Birmingham on April 24, 2008. 

There's still time to enter. Derek Blackadder explains here how to enter and what the contest rules are.

Strikes halt work at Toyota and Honda plants in China

The news from China's auto factories, as brought to you by Labour Start and the BBC. Workers at other Chinese plants have struck and received pay raises of 25 percent. Union organizers will not be surprised that one unnamed worker was quoted as saying:

"I feel not respected by the human resources department. They often say 'You can leave if you think other plants are better', when we ask for something."