American Postal Workers union endorses Bernie Sanders
"Politics as usual has not worked. It's time for a political revolution."
Report details retirement insecurity for workers, decadent pensions for CEOs
It results from the persistent demand by CEOs that all wealth get deposited in their pockets.
Fast food workers wage biggest-ever strike Nov. 10
Fast-food workers will wage their biggest-ever strike Tuesday - one year from Election Day - with walkouts hitting a record 270 cities from Detroit to Denver.
Today in labor history: The CIO is created in 1935
The creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was announced 80 years ago on this day.
Gateway Arch builders remember their accomplishment 50 years later
What they built was something special, and union workers are erecting a development to revitalize the surrounding area.
After first look at full TPP text, union leaders give pact thumbs down
Union leaders gave the 12-nation treaty an initial thumbs down as being too pro-corporate and not guaranteeing workers' rights.
Campaign exposes widespread abuses of poultry industry workers
Poultry workers in the United States suffer high rates of injury, earn poverty level wages and work in a climate of fear.
Fifty professors arrested at City University of New York protest
"The future of our students' education is at stake. Our action today is part of a long struggle for racial and educational justice."
Rallies for $15 minimum wage to be held nationwide November 10
Polls show that Americans support raising the minimum wage - in recent years 14 states have done so.
Liz Yates, 90, helped organize Seattle teachers
Elizabeth Yates who helped unionize her fellow Seattle school teachers and remained a lifelong progressive activist.
