Easter Rising 1916: Labor and the Irish independence struggle
An unexpected commotion disrupted routine in a busy city center on an April morning one hundred years ago.
What’s the value of this man’s work?
His name is Kwaku Agyeman, and he has a job pushing wheelchairs for airport passengers who otherwise would have a hard time getting around.
Long ATI lockout ends with Steelworkers win
"The strength and solidarity of our union paid off with a fair contract that contains virtually none of the drastic concessions ATI sought to arbitrarily impose."
Labor backs two major actions aimed at restoring American democracy
The AFL-CIO's executive council has endorsed two coming April actions aimed at wresting control over the nation's elections from corporations and billionaires.
Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy's for human rights abuses
The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
Presidential hopefuls on so-called 'free trade' pacts
Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
Layoffs continue as newspaper workers continue fight for fair wages, job security
"They've been treating the workforce like something they can just ignore."
This week in women’s history: Militant furriers strike successfully in 1926
Some 10,000 women workers in the needle trades, mostly Jewish and Italian, took to the New York City streets to demand higher wages.
The case against Uber
Many people are beginning to question, and think twice, about safety concerns with Uber.
