Fast food workers rally vs. poverty wages
Fast food workers and their supporters packed a Wendy's restaurant in Oakland Oct. 15, demanding a living wage and labor rights.
What does AFL-CIO Convention mean to the class struggle today? Let's discuss
The AFL-CIO, the country's largest labor federation, held a groundbreaking convention in Los Angeles. Join us for a teleconference dialogue on what happened.
Fast food giants cost America $7 billion in McTaxes
Two recently published reports shed damning light on the high cost of low wages in the fast food industry.
Shutdown puts hundreds of thousands in dire straits
About half a million federal employees remain locked out of their jobs due to the shutdown.
Today in labor history: Miners' National Association forms
It sought to unite all miners as workers in a single industrial union, regardless of skill level or ethnicity.
Supreme Court moves to aid union busters again
The justices will hear a case about whether union-represented home health care workers must pay for the union's services.
Report: Nissan in Mississippi is violating international labor law
The company is in violation of the standards on freedom of association, the report notes, because of Nissan's "aggressive interference" with workers attempting to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union.
UAW on verge of breakthrough in South?
There are now so many auto workers in the South that one Southern U.S. GOP senator recently claimed his region is now the center of the U.S. auto industry.
Connecticut unions reach out to all workers
The convention's clear agenda was to organize the unorganized and stand up for the rights and needs of all working people.
Supreme Court postpones top labor case involving NLRB rulings
McCutcheon is scheduled for Oct. 8, but the court may not be in session because Congress has not approved money bills to keep the government going.
