Chocolate shakeup: Student guest workers walk out at Hershey’s plant
Students say the strike will continue until Hershey's ends the exploitation of student guest workers and gives living wage local jobs to Pennsylvania's workers.
Steelworkers "stand up, fight back" (with video)
"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
St. Louis labor and community rallies to support Verizon strikers
CWA members, union supporters and community activists rallied outside of a St. Louis Verizon store.
Locked-out workers take message to Crystal Sugar’s doorstep
More than 600 locked out sugar workers and supporters rallied outside the headquarters of American Crystal Sugar August 11, demanding an end to the lockout.
Labor welcomes U.S. move in Guatemalan labor rights
Organized labor welcomed the Obama administration's first move against rampant labor rights violations in Guatemala.
45,000 Verizon workers strike over company greed
The 45,000 strikers walked off the job this weekend because the company has refused to budge since negotiations began July 22.
Labor says jobs deficit is the real crisis
Labor leaders say the nation's real crisis is not a debt crisis but an unemployment crisis and spending cuts could, in fact, spiral the country into an even deeper recession.
Verizon workers, allies stage massive contract rally
Verizon, which earns billions in profits and whose chief officer makes $55,000 per day, is attacking the working conditions, health benefits and pensions of its unionized workforce.
Unions demand good jobs as study shows openings pay little
"Industries that once were great contributors to our country - auto, shipbuilding, machine tools and even electronics - are shadows of what they once were," declares the Task Force on Job Creation, in its report, released in July.
Unsung hero of farmworker movement Richard Chavez dies
The civil rights, labor and farm worker community is mourning the loss of Richard E. Chavez, long-time farm worker and civil rights advocate.
