Union sees AT&T buyout of T-Mobile as good for workers
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile could open the way for unionization of the thousands of T-Mobile workers who have been denied a voice on the job.
Upper Big Branch miner describes scene at blast
On that dismal day in West Virginia history, when the Upper Big Branch mine exploded, a son of one of the miners, Eddie, went from person to person asking: "Is there any word?"
Workers target bank backing Gov. Walker
The Marshall & Ilesley Bank, the largest in Wisconsin, with branches throughout the Midwest has become the target of the Sheet Metal Workers and their union brothers and sisters in Canada.
Labor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98
Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.
Labor urges "virtual picket" around Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, labor says, makes millions off its so-called "citizen journalists" - without paying them a dime.
Shop Talk: Credit and some good news for labor
What's been going on in labor over the past week?
UAW special convention: “Fight for every worker in America”
DETROIT - Addressing 1,200 union activists, United Auto Workers President Bob King called for a return to the social consciousness of the union's founders.
This is what a workers’ uprising looks like
Anyone who thinks the upsurge by workers all across America is not of historic proportions hasn't been paying attention.
Triangle fire memorial draws parallels with today
WASHINGTON (PAI) - A half-day-long Capitol Hill commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire drew uncomfortable parallels with conditions facing workers today. The fire in Manhattan killed 146 young immigrant workers, almost all of them women.
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.
