Disney worker rejects employer’s substitute hijab
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Is Disney policy part of the Islamophobia being trumpeted by the ultra-right?
Union delegates resolve to build record voter turnout
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Union activists pledge to knock on 36,000 doors before Election Day in this battleground state.
Justice served to restaurant workers
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan (ROC-MI) won a major victory when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an order that Dearborn's Andiamo Restaurant acted illegally.
Disneyland worker sent home for hijab
A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in a hotel restaurant.
The rich are dying to avoid paying taxes
I recently read with dismay a Wall Street Journal article about the return of the estate tax.
College grad adds union organizing to job as a laundry hauler
Unorganized California hotel workers stage a one-day strike.
Dinner honors workers' ‘incredible courage'
Union and community supporters showed solidarity with Castlewood Country Club workers who have been locked out of their jobs at the posh Pleasanton club for nearly six months.
Non-union workers strike California hotel
In a first for their industry, workers at a non-union hotel went out on a one-day strike Aug. 9 to protest years of being denied the right to take breaks.
Warehouse workers suffer while Wal-Mart rakes in cash
Tory Moore, from Kankakee, Ill., worked as a temp warehouse worker for six years before he was fired in December 2009, after standing up for his rights.
Laborers to rejoin AFL-CIO
The Change To Win federation will lose yet another member on Oct. 1, when the Laborers rejoin the AFL-CIO - but in a sense, they never really left.
