Courts remain key to advancing workers’ rights
If you think courts aren't important to workers, then unions in Wisconsin, Alaska and Texas have a blunt message for you: Wrong.
Interfaith group urges vigils for Walmart supply chain workers
The same weekend as U.S. Walmart workers went on a Black Friday strike 112 garment workers were killed in a fire in Bangladesh.
Today in labor history: FDR lifts internment of Japanese Americans
President Roosevelt lifted the "military-necessary exclusion" of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, marking the beginning of the end of a shameful chapter of U.S. history.
Missourians: Real deficit is the jobs deficit
"We cannot cut our way to job creation," the Rev. Roosevelt Broadnax told labor and community allies.
AFT proposes setting higher standards for teacher training, entry into profession
"Too many new teachers enter our schools feeling unprepared. We shouldn't tolerate that in a profession so important to our country's future."
