Woodfin workers celebrate victory
"We are very proud to have fought for living wages and immigrant rights, and we are very happy with this agreement," said Luz, a worker leader.
Labor pulling out the vote in key state
Union members hit the ground running to get their co-workers out to vote this November in Connecticut, one of 21 battleground states designated by the AFL-CIO.
Jobless jeer GOP Kirk on economy
CHICAGO - "Thirteen hundred teachers have been laid off in Chicago, put on unemployment, their houses and cars being taken and what do we have? Mark Kirk is up there hiding!
Labor editor wins award: good time to give
John Wojcik, labor editor of peoplesworld.org, is a winner. Show the love.
15,000 jobless at tele-town hall cause concern for GOP
Participation by 15,000 unemployed workers, Sept. 14, in Working America's tele-town hall on the November elections has Republican candidates nervous.
Workers in New England rustbelt fight to keep plant open
A group of workers in New England's economic rustbelt are battling an aerospace giant to preserve their livelihoods.
Laundry workers expose Cleveland's own "sweat" shop
Think about working in temperatures, upwards of 100 degrees on hot days. Finding used hypodermic needles, human body parts, fluids and excrement, umbilical cords and other biohazard material. No safety harnesses for workers climbing over 10 feet in the air on scissor lifts. Nonexistent water breaks and a minimal amount of fans to cool the facility on extremely hot days. Now think about enduring all of this while earning $8.34 an hour.
U.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline
Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas' Gulf Coast.
European unions set to march for “Robin Hood taxes”
Next in the "rising tide of world labor protest" file comes the September 29 labor actions in Europe.
