Chicago Southeast Side rally for teachers (with video)
Teachers, steelworkers, electricians, firefighters and other union members, their families and supporters, rallied here on the Southeast Side to defend teachers and union rights.
Michigan labor ready to march on Labor Day, win in 2012
With a Republican governor and Republican-controlled legislature, Labor Day Mobilization Luncheon took on special significance.
Farm workers march for justice
On Tuesday, farm workers launched a 13-day, 200-mile march, through California's rich agricultural Central Valley to the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Unions reject Verizon bravado regarding end of strike
Verizon workers have rejected claims by the company that their return to work marks a victory for the company.
Verizon bargaining resumes, workers end strike
Some 45,000 unionized Verizon workers, members of CWA and IBEW returned to work at a minute past midnight on Aug. 23, ending their 2-week strike. The old contract was reinstated, pending the outcome of re-started bargaining between the telecom firm and the two unions.
Steelworkers honor Danny Glover and Ed Schultz (with video)
On the final day of their International Convention 2011, the United Steel Workers (USW) introduced the union's new Paul Wellstone award. The first recipients are: actor and chair of TransAfrica, Danny Glover; and Ed Shultz, host of the Ed Shultz Show on MSNBC.
Pressure grows on sugar company to end lockout
The East Grand Forks, Minn., city council voted unanimously to send a letter urging American Crystal Sugar to return to negotiations with its locked-out workers.
Verizon threatens strikers with health care cutoff
Workers this week will miss their first paycheck as result of the strike, now in its 11th day. Pension and disability benefits were suspended as the strike began.
Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
Steelworkers "stand up, fight back" (with video)
"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
