Courts remain key to advancing workers’ rights
If you think courts aren't important to workers, then unions in Wisconsin, Alaska and Texas have a blunt message for you: Wrong.
Supreme Court tackles "who is a supervisor?"
Supervisors, as agents of firms, must not discriminate or harass - or stop it when it occurs.
Labor’s year in headlines
A review of these headlines does more than just take one down memory lane.
East and Gulf Coast dockworkers postpone strike
The strike by dock workers could have frozen business at every port from Boston to Houston.
Today in Labor History: Miners' union formed
It was the first attempt to found a national miner's union.
NLRB overturns union-busting policy
In a landmark decision the National Labor Relations Board threw out a 50-year precedent and took away a powerful weapon employers have had.
Postal workers' hunger strike over, victory declared
The hunger strikers called on postal management to suspend cuts and closures and allow Congress to fix the finances by repealing the prefunding mandate and refunding the pension surplus.
Interfaith group urges vigils for Walmart supply chain workers
The same weekend as U.S. Walmart workers went on a Black Friday strike 112 garment workers were killed in a fire in Bangladesh.
"Unfinished Business": Unique exhibit presents domestic workers' stories
She needed a notebook more than food. It would save her sanity and soul.
Today in labor history: 2005 New York transit workers strike
On December 20, 2005, thousands of workers began what was to be a three-day strike of the New York City transit system over retirement, pension and wage issues.
