Eugene Debs: March together, vote together, fight together
Union organizer and strike leader, spellbinding orator, founder of the Socialist Party of America, five times a candidate for president, Eugene Debs was all that and more.
Autoworkers negotiate with “wind in their face”
The United Auto Workers union has now completed its negotiations with the domestic auto companies.
Unions to GOP: "You’re next on the unemployment lines!”
National labor leaders are telling GOP lawmakers to stop playing partsian games on the question of jobs and that come Nov., 2012, Republicans will be next on the unemployment lines.
AFL-CIO's week of action focuses on jobs
Somewhere over New Mexico, there's a big, hot air balloon flying. "Jobs, Not Cuts," its sign declares.
Over 800 youth converge in Minneapolis for AFL-CIO Next Up Summit
This year's AFL-CIO Next Up Summit Sept. 29 - Oct. had a very different flavor. Unlike the 2010 summit, this conference was lead and organized by young union members from across the country.
California hotel ordered to shell out $36,000 in back pay
An Embassy Suites hotel was found guilty of denying required paid rest breaks to seven of its workers, and has been ordered to pay each of them about $5,000.
Official jobless rate stays at 9.1 percent
Private businesses claimed that they added 137,000 new jobs, but 33 percent of those were Communications Workers and Electrical Workers, who returned to their posts after calling off the strike.
Labor youth summit opens in Minneapolis
The conference includes young workers, young union organizers and students, and is part of the AFL-CIO's attempts, over the last two years, to reach workers under age 35.
Longshore union leader: "We're putting our bodies on the line."
Hundreds of port workers have voluntarily stood in front of trains carrying grain to an outlaw company in Longview, Washington. Their struggle has made news across the nation and around the world.
Labor takes fight against the right into the courts
Labor's fight against the radical Right isn't just occurring in the streets or at the ballot box. Unions are challenging the Right Wing's schemes in court, too.
