AFL-CIO report on “Raise The Wage” campaign lauds grassroots success
Workers hit the streets for causes ranging from decent pay to undoing two-tier wage systems to health and safety.
Workers, lawyers, NLRB team up to expose Menard's union busting
David vs. Goliath comparisons arise whenever a person fights for rights against the controlling rich, and sometimes it's dead right.
Workers of San Quintin Valley: No longer willing to be invisible
Thousands of workers - who pick strawberries and tomatoes for the US market - went on a two-week strike in protest over their poverty wages.
Workers tell Los Angeles: Stop job discrimination!
LA Black workers and anti wage theft activists have joined forces to demand that the city take action on Black workers' economic plight.
Labor experts ask NLRB: give unions equal voice, time at “captive audience” meetings
The current captive audience meetings let employers summon workers into closed meetings to hear anti-union rhetoric and worse.
Steelworkers, ExxonMobil, CalOSHA start talks on Torrance refinery explosion
"Things are going fine" in the talks with ExxonMobil, "but it's a slow process."
“Ramp up our pay,” demand Seattle baggage handlers
It's about fairness as much as the money, a baggage handler says; "I have to follow the law, why shouldn't they?"
Teacher sickouts close almost all Detroit schools
Nearly all Detroit Public Schools (DPS) are closed Wednesday, as teacher sickouts which began last week continue.
The "Right-to-Work" movement's attack on women workers
If strong public sector union jobs are eroded as a result of the right-to-work movement's attack, this will be an added setback for women's economic status in the U.S.
Construction workers killed on the job, manager goes to jail
On Christmas Eve 2009, when the scaffolding they were working on broke in half, four workers were not wearing safety lines and fell thirteen floors.
