Our Walmart wins some victories for pregnant workers
It wasn't good luck that brought about workplace changes at Walmart. It was the hard work and the mobilization of workers and community supporters across the nation in Our Walmart.
AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry
AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.
Today in women’s history: Georgia O’Keefe, American artist, dies at 98
Georgia O'Keefe, one of the most renowned and honored American artists, died March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.
Ruling by Labor Board is most damning ever against Walmart
The NLRB asserts illegal activities in 14 states at 34 stores and shows that company executives conceived of an unlawful retaliation policy for store managers to execute.
2013: Year of the bold new labor movement
This year organized labor joined with community, civil rights and other organizations and, together, they fashioned themselves into a new movement.
Today in labor history: Beethoven’s music belongs to all of us
He was a brilliant pianist and one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Protesting poverty wages lands them in jail
At the intersection of Snelling and University Avenues in St. Paul, Minnesota, 26 were arrested on Black Friday afternoon, Nov. 29, for protesting poverty wages.
Buried in my grave, before I'll be a Walmart slave!
Walmart workers striking for higher wages here have added the element of song to their picketing, marching and chanting.
Shoppers down but numbers up at Walmart protests
STERLING HEIGHTS. Mich. - While analysts are lamenting that retail sales were down at shopping malls on Black Friday, the numbers were simultaneously "up" at Walmart protests taking place the same day.
Today in labor history: Workers perform "Pins and Needles" on Broadway
Today in labor history, Nov. 27, 1937, the pro-labor musical revue, "Pins & Needles," opens on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members.
