Why 2016 is all about raising pay
How has the middle class dissolved and childhood poverty risen while we continue to create more millionaires and billionaires?
Labor-led coalition deals blow to trade deal
The TPP deal would trash workers' rights, kill jobs, and open the floodgates to new rounds of outsourcing.
With House vote looming, labor turns up heat on trade
Unionists continue to campaign to get lawmakers to reject the scheme that would grease the skids for secret trade pacts.
Underfunding, one-person crews share responsibility for deadly Amtrak crash
"It strains our collective memory to think of a case where we attack a problem by defunding it when we want a positive outcome."
Today in history: Supreme Court okays sit-down strikes
In 1940, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader that a sit-down strike was not a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Labor launches hotline for millions buried under student debt
Over 40 million Americans are buried under a mountain of student loan debt.
Some wins, some losses for workers in state battles
Elections have consequences; Indiana's GOP governor killed prevailing wages and wage theft protection and undermined union organizing rights.
Trumka: CEOs are the new royalty in America
CEOs of the largest corporations received a 16 percent pay raise in 2014, while the pay gap between CEOs and the typical worker widened to 373-to-1.
With future at stake, postal workers fighting for everyone
The American Postal Workers Union's contract expires May 20. The outcome of this will impact every community in America.
May Day 2015: an international affair
On May 1, 2015 in Chicago, the community gathered around the memorial for the Haymarket Martyrs.
