"La Bestia" victims call for immigration reform
Hernández lost his left leg and arm and part of his right hand when he fell from the top of a moving freight train while trying to reach the U.S. - he was desperate.
Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling
By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.
Right-wing GOP Illinois Gov. Rauner plans to force state workers to strike
Rauner's tactic is the latest in a nationwide campaign by the right, its business backers and its political puppets to trash workers, cut wages, destroy pensions and kill unions.
LA supporters take to the streets to back fired El Super worker
On a hot summer day in LA, Fermin Rodriquez, a fired El Super market worker, marched alongside community, labor and religious leaders.
Activists demand re-hiring at Walmart
On June 2 in Dallas, nationwide rallies demanded re-hiring of laid-off Walmart workers.
Video: Chicago teachers protest charter expansion
Teachers union activists assembled at the Chicago Public School Board before classes began to protest plans to expand for-profit charter schools.
Retirees rally at Ohio commission hearing
Hundreds of retirees and their supporters rallied in connection with hearings held by the White House Commission on Aging.
Unions and environmentalists descend on DC to oppose fast track
The TPP would give firms and investors "rights and privileges" that make it safer to take production overseas to low-wage, labor and human rights violators.
Today in history: Dolores Huerta is born in 1930
In 1962, Dolores Huerta and César Chávez launched the National Farm Workers Association; Huerta's organizing skills were essential to its growth.
Missouri unionists, businesses, officials mobilize vs. 'right-to-work'
They packed the Small Business Committee hearing room and offered detailed testimony on the benefits of unionization and the harm such a law would cause.
