Republicans see assaulting workers as more important than creating jobs
Just days before Election Day, 2011, a national group devoted to workers rights has issued a scathing report about Republican intentions toward workers.
Scott Walker not welcome in Chicago (with video)
Wisconsin's union busting governor Scott Walker came to Chicago last week and labor, community and Occupy Chicago reminded him the Windy City is a union town.
How many hours has your bus driver been behind the wheel?
The next time you get on an inter-city bus, ask the driver how many hours he or she has spent behind the wheel in the last week.
Workers reject sugar company demands; lockout continues
Workers at American Crystal Sugar's seven plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa rejected, by a nine to one margin in a Nov. 1 vote, the company's latest demands.
Right-to-work legislation enables the one percent
Michigan Senate Bill 729 is another insidious attack on working people initiated by the Republican-controlled legislature.
In Ohio town, Solidarity Day rally vows to repeal SB 5
Hundreds rallied on the courthouse lawn in Newark, Ohio, on Oct. 30, "Solidarity Day," calling for repeal of Ohio's union-busting SB 5 law.
We Are One Illinois fights back
Thousands of union members overflowed the Illinois Statehouse to defend their pensions and collective bargaining rights.
Right-to-work scheme rears its head in Indiana again
A GOP scheme to make Indiana into a so-called "Right to Work" state, crippling unions by allowing thousands of workers to be freeloaders, has reared its head in the Hoosier State - again.
Workers hit streets to repeal union-buster SB 5
Labor activists held a rally in Cleveland to mobilize voter turnout in the Nov. 8 election to defeat Issue 2 and repeal SB 5, the law that strips public employees collective bargaining rights.
Miners demand prosecution of Massey execs
Mine workers are now demanding criminal prosecution of 18 Massey Coal Company executives - including retired CEO Don Blankenship - for "industrial homicide."
