Miners arrested in protest against coal company
The nation's largest coal companies created the spin-off company, Patriot Coal, in a scheme to rob thousands of union members and beneficiaries of their pensions and health care benefits.
Jobs pipeline offers hope
Youth, the unemployed, elected officials, educators, union leaders, and the business community were all represented at a public hearing.
Labor & community join mercado workers' struggle
OAKLAND, Calif. - Some 30,000 California workers, many of them in the San Francisco Bay Area, are employed by mercados - Latino, Asian and other ethnic grocery stores numbering many recent immigrants among both workers and customers.
It's not about money, it's about freedom: voices from Wisconsin
There is one thing Wisconsin union families want everyone to know: the protests are about workers' freedom to organize into a union and bargain collectively.
Labor takes on racism in GOP "Pledge"
The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.
Meet Eliseo Medina, SEIU's first Latino sec.-treas.
The People's World interviewed Eliseo Medina, widely known as a highly successful organizer and immigrant rights advocate recently elected as the first Latino international secretary-treasurer with SEIU.
Filipino American labor marks 45th anniversary of grape strike
The Delano, Calif., grape strike brought together Filipino American agricultural workers and Mexican American farm workers to form what became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW).
Chavez message is still strong
Union organizer Cesar Chavez' birthday, March 31, is celebrated in North Texas as it is across America.
Nurses unite to form largest RN union ever
As lawmakers continue to debate legislation to overhaul the country's health care system, three nurses unions merged Dec. 7 to form the largest-ever labor union of registered nurses in U.S. history.
