After first look at full TPP text, union leaders give pact thumbs down
Union leaders gave the 12-nation treaty an initial thumbs down as being too pro-corporate and not guaranteeing workers' rights.
Campaign exposes widespread abuses of poultry industry workers
Poultry workers in the United States suffer high rates of injury, earn poverty level wages and work in a climate of fear.
Fifty professors arrested at City University of New York protest
"The future of our students' education is at stake. Our action today is part of a long struggle for racial and educational justice."
Rallies for $15 minimum wage to be held nationwide November 10
Polls show that Americans support raising the minimum wage - in recent years 14 states have done so.
Liz Yates, 90, helped organize Seattle teachers
Elizabeth Yates who helped unionize her fellow Seattle school teachers and remained a lifelong progressive activist.
Retired Teamsters slammed by budget bill
Thousands of retired Teamsters have been blasted this month by major cuts to their pensions.
El Super workers continue fighting after 720 days with no contract
El Super market workers continued their fight for a fair contract with hundreds demonstrating last week.
Survey: Health care premiums continue to outpace inflation and wages
The survey confirms what most workers already feel: Health care costs are gobbling up more and more of their wages.
NLRB declares taxi drivers are employees, can vote to unionize
Taxi drivers, like millions of other such exploited workers nationwide, are not "independent contractors" but are really employees.
Experts: “New” economy is just another way to suppress workers’ rights
"New" economy workers can only be protected by policies that protect all workers, like ones that define the difference between an employee and an independent contractor.
