Mill owner cheats on jobs, wages in biomass project
Building trades workers were hoping for desperately needed union-wage jobs when Nippon Corporation announced plans to build a $71 million biomass cogeneration plant.
Connecticut labor builds political movement
"We won't ever let them take our movement backward," exclaimed Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.
Ship products not jobs, say Detroiters
The still active Detroit Port on the Detroit River is where union members and city residents rallied yesterday.
OSHA's Barab walks fine line on firms' 'voluntary protection'
House Republicans demand OSHA emphasize its Voluntary Protection Program while unions and the GAO say OSHA doesn't have the staff to monitor VPP firms' performance.
NOW: Women workers of the world, organize!
Feminists and labor activists at this month's NOW 2012 National Conference discussed women's roles and rights in the national and global economy.
NEA meets; Biden blasts GOP as anti-public education
Republicans - presumed presidential nominee Mitt Romney included - have become anti-public education, Democratic Vice President Joseph Biden says.
Southwest baggage handlers fight privatization
"We don't want to outsource our jobs. We're gonna keep on fighting till we get a decent contract."
Michigan 'protect our jobs' petition passes signature threshold
Michigan's Protect Our Jobs coalition has gathered more than double the amount of signatures necessary to put a proposed state constitutional amendment enshrining union rights on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Some Republican anti-labor moves derailed, the fight goes on
Three narrow votes in a key Senate committee and some crafty maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., derailed anti-labor schemes that right-wing Republican senators hatched and floated in mid-June.
Wisconsin: The uprising, the recall, and the fight to come
For the labor movement and its allies, today's recall election of Scott Walker is only part of a groundswell of inspiring actions that began with a historic uprising early in 2011.
