Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”
A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.
Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller
Trashing promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill that would make union shops illegal.
West Coast ports resume operations, after tentative contract is reached
The 29 West Coast ports together handle a quarter of the country's international trade, or about $1 trillion a year, crucial to U.S. economy.
Trumka singles out fight against racism as key to raising wages
"Racism and dog whistle politics is being used to keep us all divided, and that division holds back our ability to win wage increases and improve our standard of living."
Obama uses Pullman monument dedication to push workers’ rights
"Dignity and opportunity aren't just gifts to be handed down by a generous government or by a generous employer. They are rights."
Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”
Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.
Update: El Super boycott
El Super market workers, along with 100 community organizations, endorse the call to boycott El Super.
GOP House panel OK's partisan rewrite of education law
"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."
A first contract for Brooklyn Cablevision employees
"Many of us never thought we'd see this night come. Many workers had given up hope. But we stuck together through thick and thin."
The third try is the charm
Philadelphia joins two other cities, San Francisco, Calif., and Tacoma, Wash., and several states, in enacting earned paid sick leave.
