People's World Hangout: Join the fight to save mail delivery!
Why is the Postal Service pretending it is losing money when, in fact, it is making a profit?
Fast food protests to go global May 15
Demonstrations are planned for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and 147 other U.S. cities and also on five other continents.
Why is the postmaster general understating postal revenue gains?
The supposed loss results from crushing pension pre-funding requirements imposed on the Postal Service.
Walmart workers call on Obama to challenge retailer on wages
"Either you are going to keep your gas or your lights on, not both. You shouldn't have to make choices like that in America today."
Union leaders to lawmakers: pay freezes, furloughs hit federal workers’ morale
"Federal employees are a devoted and resilient bunch. They despise what politicians have done to them."
Unionists ignore downpour, bring fast track fight to Capitol steps
Hundreds of unionists gathered on Capitol Hill on May 7 to campaign against "fast-track" trade legislation and the anti-worker trade treaties it would lead to.
Gov. Jerry Brown and the new, but weak, minimum wage law
Most Californians are well aware that the state minimum wage is going up to $10.00/hour. But when and how?
Trumka: Minimum wage opponents 'delusional' if they think they've won
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka condemned the continued right-wing obstruction preventing millions of working families from getting a much-needed boost in income.
Today in labor history: Nazis destroy unions
On May 2, 1933, Adolf Hitler's storm troopers occupied all trade union headquarters across Germany, and union leaders were arrested and put in prison or concentration camps.
Senate GOP defeats minimum wage hike
The Senate tried to raise the nation's minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016. But its Democratic sponsors needed 60 votes to start debate, and got six fewer than that.
