McDonald’s workers sue fast food giant over racial and sexual discrimination
McDonald's workers who were fired last year after being told, "There are too many black people [working] in the store."
Unions added 48,000 members last year
Union density was 11.1 percent in 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, but the workforce grew even more.
Campaign demands more funding for reentry programs
Supporters of the 50 percent for Jobs not Jails campaign rallied at the Alameda County Administration Building in Oakland Jan. 20.
After 26 years, government to end direct oversight of Teamsters
After 26 years, the federal government plans to end its consent decree and its direct oversight governing the Teamsters. But there are still strings attached.
Union leaders give Obama positive reviews except on trade
Union leaders gave President Obama's 2015 State of the Union address generally positive reviews.
Call for stronger labor law first for Obama on national television
Obama, for the first time since he took office six years ago, used his State of the Union Speech last Tuesday to call for new, tougher labor laws to protect worker's rights.
Happiness is … joining a union!
Union members are happier with their lives than nonunion workers. Makes sense, right? Now comes a study that proves it.
Tentative pact lets 18,000 Kaiser California nurses cancel strike
"The pact shows the chain recognizes the nurses' devotion to assuring the highest level of quality care for patients as well as protections for the nurses who deliver that care."
To honor of King they marched for lives in Los Angeles
Over 3000 marchers and tens of thousands of observers lined up along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in solidarity with the theme Black Lives Matter.
Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize
No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.
