Black, Latino and labor leaders in Phoenix: "We are One"
More than 1,000 labor, civil and immigrant rights activists met in Phoenix, Ariz., last week during the "We Are One" summit hosted by the NACCP.
Jobless rate drops to 8.6% because 315,000 drop out altogether
This morning's government report was full of unsettling statistics.
Jobless enter Capitol, demand benefits extension
Two hundred unemployed workers marched into the halls of Congress yesterday and served their lawmakers with 75,000 signatures on petitions demanding extension of unemployment benefits for the six million Americans about to lose them.
Black public workers first laid off by job cuts
African Americans are experiencing the sharpest edge of layoffs of government and other public workers across the country
New Haven prepares for week of action for jobs
Actions include supporting the emergency need for massive public works jobs to restart the economy and aid communities, to be paid for by taxing the rich and ending the wars.
U.S. last in unionization among developed countries
The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.
University faculty to chancellor: "We are not your ATM!"
In California State University faculty's first such action since collective bargaining began almost 30 years ago, two of the system's 23 campuses were idled in a one-day strike Nov. 17.
Communist Party's National Committee convenes just blocks from Occupy Wall Street
Leaders of the Communist Party, USA, opened a full session of their recently-elected National Committee in New York in a celebratory mood on Saturday.
More elderly are poor; net worth for young people worsens
The U.S. Census Bureau calculates that nearly twice as many older Americans qualify as poor than had been previously thought. At the same time, net worth disparity between younger and older is at an all-time high.
Occupy Tucson has new home
Activists believe the Occupy Tucson movement, with it's new and improved downtown location, is growing and has gotten its second wind.
