Restaurant workers picket for fair contract and respect
Some 65 workers at Oaks Corner have been without a contract for two and a half years, and haven't had a raise in eight years.
Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”
A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.
Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller
Trashing promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill that would make union shops illegal.
Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”
Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.
Update: El Super boycott
El Super market workers, along with 100 community organizations, endorse the call to boycott El Super.
A first contract for Brooklyn Cablevision employees
"Many of us never thought we'd see this night come. Many workers had given up hope. But we stuck together through thick and thin."
The third try is the charm
Philadelphia joins two other cities, San Francisco, Calif., and Tacoma, Wash., and several states, in enacting earned paid sick leave.
Canadian Supreme Court: Public workers have the right to strike
As a result of Canadian laws and attitudes, union density there is at least double that in the U.S.
Illinois GOP governor rolls out right-wing anti-union agenda
New Illinois GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner yanked union rights to collect dues or fees from thousands of home health caregivers in the state.
Nissan rejects offer to mediate Mississippi dispute with UAW
The car firm claimed that "entering mediation over issues raised might violate U.S. national labor law."
