Walker says minimum wage serves no purpose
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) doesn't believe the minimum wage "serves a purpose."
Organizers in Colombia’s flower industry: These roses have thorns!
For workers in Colombia, providing bouquets for vases has meant increasing hours with falling pay, growing health problems, and human rights violations.
Working Families Party rallies to turnout Row D vote
The event highlighted that a big turnout on Row D, the WFP line, will be decisive in ensuring that Cuomo, the IDC and other elected officials remain good to their word.
People's World wins three labor media awards
"Our newsroom/editorial office erupted with cheers; it felt like winning a Pulitzer, but without the champagne."
Trumka: “Raising wages will be a driving force at the polls”
"Labor is perfectly positioned to unite a massive movement, to raise wages and to lift up our communities."
Global auto union leaders to meet with Nissan workers in Mississippi
A delegation of senior-level trade union leaders from around the globe will travel to Canton, Mississippi, to meet with Nissan workers and community leaders.
Labor, aiming to oust McConnell, campaigns hard for Grimes in Kentucky
"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one," legendary former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn famously once observed.
Mercedes-Benz workers form new union local in Alabama
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International employees and the United Auto Workers announced the formation of UAW Local 112, a new local union.
Groundbreaking 1984 strike inspires organizing today
Despite current battles brewing, Yale's new president, Peter Salovey, came by to shake hands with each of the workers, recognizing the respect they had won in the hard fought 1984 battle.
Locked-out workers from Superman's town go to D.C.
Honeywell locked out 150 workers, members of USW Local 7-669, an old Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local, on August 2.
