Wisconsin GOP continues its “right-to-work” steamroller
Republicans aren't slowing down their steamroller despite widespread opposition that continued this week from all quarters in Wisconsin.
Organizers say it's possible to grow unions in the South
People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.
Oakland workers celebrate new minimum wage
On Mar. 2, tens of thousands of Oakland workers will get a pay raise, and thousands more will have paid sick days for the first time.
Restaurant workers picket for fair contract and respect
Some 65 workers at Oaks Corner have been without a contract for two and a half years, and haven't had a raise in eight years.
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.
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.
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.
