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Mobile Crowd watching a Labor Day parade in downtown Mobile, Alabama

Downtown Mobile’s Toilet Paper Parade Draws Biggest Labor Day Crowd in Years

James Bullard, September 1, 2014

The 69th annual Labor Day parade through downtown Mobile drew its largest crowd in years, with 2,000 marchers and 17 union floats.

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Calvert An industrial steel plant with equipment and stacks

A Steel Plant, a Shipyard and a Tanker: Would Unions Come Back to South Alabama?

James Bullard, January 9, 2009

With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile. His answer: don’t count on it.

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Local News Workers at stations along an industrial manufacturing assembly line

Shelby Vowed to Block Union Card-Check Bill, Citing Alabama’s Factories

James Bullard, May 14, 2007

Pointing to Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and the new EADS facility in Mobile, Alabama’s senior senator said he had cosigned a letter with enough signatures to stop the Employee Free Choice Act in the Senate.

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