Labor history: 2011 marks unhappy anniversary on job safety
The year 2011 should serve as a reminder of how far the U.S. has come on job safety issues - and how far it has yet to go.
Workers blast threat to shut down U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service employees say threats by the U.S. Postal Service to shut down this winter because of a $9.2 billion deficit are part of a "manufactured crisis" designed to privatize the world's largest mail delivery system.
Secretary of Labor Solis signs migrant workers rights agreements with Latin American countries
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis signed agreements with three more Latin American countries (for a total of six) on the protection of certain rights of migrant workers. The right wing is, predictably, yelling "betrayal".
Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day
A report on U.S. occupations - sorting 366 defined jobs data into high-income, middle-income and low-income posts - reveals data to back what workers know by instinct: The jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession were middle-class, and the fewer jobs created now pay a lot less.
Why women unionists back others under attack
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "There are only two ways to bring about protection for workers... legislation and unionization."
Chicago Southeast Side rally for teachers (with video)
Teachers, steelworkers, electricians, firefighters and other union members, their families and supporters, rallied here on the Southeast Side to defend teachers and union rights.
Oklahoma City Laborfest a stunner!
Residents of the working class neighborhood came out on their porches to watch the block-long procession. JD Thompson led the marchers in a lusty "Solidarity Forever." The third and final day of the Oklahoma Laborfest was underway!
Companies continue attack on national labor board
Unions, led by the Teamsters, the Laborers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the AFL-CIO, strongly backed the National Labor Relations Board's recent proposal to change union recognition election procedures.
New Haven candidates' fight for jobs is "what we need"
Years of struggle for good jobs at the site of the former Winchester sporting arms factory, now Science Park at Yale, came together this week when Delphine Clyburn, candidate for Board of Aldermen in Ward 20, led a community delegation to the main building 25 Science Park and demanded 200 jobs.
West coast grocery talks down to the wire
Bargaining went down to the wire, with the latest session scheduled for today between the United Food and Commercial Workers locals that represent 62,000 Southern California grocery workers and their three grocery chain employers: Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons.
