Vote can save jobs, benefits, services
Connecticut state workers are now voting for the second time on a tentative agreement reached by their unions and Gov. Malloy to "save jobs, protect benefits and preserve services."
What's at stake in Minnesota shutdown: video
A video produced by the Labor Education Service outlines the many public services being affected by the state government shutdown.
Minn. government shutdown puts thousands out of work
Minnesota's sluggish economy, struggling to recover from the recession, will be rocked by the layoffs of 23,000 state employees and thousands of others.
Firefighters, nurses, farmers turn up heat in Walkerville
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold led 1,000 firefighters, nurses, farmers and a motorcade of taxi cabs and an antique fire engine, in a demonstration that encircled Capitol Square.
"Walkerville" tent city grows in Wisconsin
Like the workers who built "Hooverville" tent cities in the Depression of the 1920s and '30s, protestors are dramatizing their opposition to Republicans' economic policies.
Illinois labor launches campaign to protect pensions
Big business blames public sector workers for the state's $8 billion budget deficit.
Instead of attacking workers, how about some jobs?
"Right to Work" backers say it's about putting people back to work, but if we look at the latest state to enact such a proposal, it just isn't true.
Scenes from an uprising: Chicago We Are One (Video)
10,000 trade unionists and their supporters from around Chicago and Illinois poured into Daley Plaza downtown.
African Americans, women and youth hit hard
The Republican assault on the public sector threatens to accelerate the rate at which public employees are being laid off, with especially dire consequences for African Americans and women.
In Texas, thousands rally to "Save our State"
Days after 1,000 union-inspired protests rattled America, tardy Texans held their statewide coalition march and rally.
