Labor

  • Report: Colin Worley

    Ready to walk at University of Oregon

    Members of the Graduate Teaching Fellow Federation are set to walk off the job at the University of Oregon. December 2, 2014

  • Comment: Elizabeth Schulte

    Fighting the hunger games at Walmart

    Once again this year, Walmart workers will turn the busiest shopping day of the year into the busiest protest day at the country's largest retailer. November 26, 2014

  • Comment

    A comeback for the UTLA?

    New leaders for the Los Angeles teachers' union helped oust a superintendent and are gearing up for contract showdown. November 17, 2014

  • Report: Steve Leigh

    Taking our union back in Seattle

    SEIU members in Seattle are organizing for free and fair elections to change the Local 6 leadership and revitalize their union. October 22, 2014

  • Analysis: Lauren Fleer

    A threat to all teachers and all unions

    The state-run school board in Philadelphia has torn up its contract with the teachers' union and imposed takeaways. October 15, 2014

  • Analysis: Haley Swenson

    New contract ends Ohio teachers' strike

    Teachers in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, approved a new contract that makes progress on some issues, despite concessions on others. October 15, 2014

  • Comment: Jay Poppa

    The wrong strategy for Connecticut teachers

    The Connecticut Education Association endorsed a Democratic governor with a history of attacking teachers' unions. October 13, 2014

  • Comment: James Daugherty

    Getting the union moving at NYU

    Members of a reform slate were elected onto the bargaining team for NYU's Graduate Student Organizing Committee. September 30, 2014

  • Analysis: Haley Swenson

    No backing down in Reynoldsburg

    Teachers in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, are on the picket line and getting support from students and parents--despite the district's threats. September 23, 2014

  • Report: Haley Swenson

    Teachers strike looms in Ohio

    With their threat to strike, teachers in the Reynoldsburg, Ohio, are taking a stand against corporate school "reform." September 17, 2014

  • Report: Carole Ramsden

    A strike lit the way at Juno

    Workers at the Juno Lighting Group manufacturing facility outside Chicago ended a five-day strike with a victory. September 15, 2014

  • Report: Keegan O'Brien

    Boston school bus drivers won't back down

    Dozens of drivers have lost their jobs and a union activist has been arrested in the drive to break Boston's bus drivers' union. September 10, 2014

  • Report: Amien Essif

    Turning up the heat on the fast-food bosses

    Low-wage workers took part in civil disobedience across the country to call for a $15 an hour wage and a union. September 8, 2014

  • Report: Rigo Gogol

    Golan can't move without us

    Workers at Golan Moving and Storage outside Chicago walked out on strike to say "no more" to wage theft and abusive treatment. August 13, 2014

  • Analysis: Amien Essif

    Yes, McDonald's is the boss

    Fast-food workers celebrated a ruling that will hold big chains like McDonald's accountable for labor practices at franchises. August 7, 2014

  • Analysis: Lee Sustar

    AFT leaders talk tough...while backing down

    The American Federation of Teachers convention was full of militant rhetoric to cover union leaders' continued concessions. July 22, 2014

  • Comment: Dennis Tong

    How we got safer staffing

    Emergency room nurses and staff won improved staffing levels when they stood together and refused overtime. July 21, 2014

  • Report: Carl Finamore

    Workers swing for the fences

    At San Francisco's baseball stadium, concession workers organized by UNITE HERE Local 2 have ratified a new contract. July 21, 2014

  • Comment

    Time to wake up and get ready for a fight

    A California teacher argues that a state court decision overturning tenure and seniority needs to be confronted head-on. July 7, 2014

  • Interview: Barbara Madeloni

    A critical moment for schools

    The president of the Massachusetts state teachers' union explains why rank-and-file educators are getting organized. July 3, 2014

  • Comment: Katy Fox-Hodess

    How UC grad employees won

    University of California student workers ratified a strong contract after months of organizing at the grassroots. July 2, 2014

  • Report: Jamie Partridge

    Occupy turns to Stop Staples

    Occupy activists in San Francisco have taken up the campaign to stop the privatization of the U.S. Post Office. June 17, 2014

  • Report: Stephanie Schwartz

    Moms on strike at Walmart

    Working mothers at Walmart took part in strikes and other actions to draw attention to low wages and rotten working conditions. June 16, 2014

  • Comment: Paul Fleckenstein

    What we learned from the bus drivers' strike

    A solidarity activist looks at the conclusions Vermont bus drivers and their supporters have drawn after a successful strike. June 10, 2014

  • Report

    Muni operators stage sickout

    San Francisco's municipal transit system was crippled by a sickout by operators who want fair pay and dignity on the job. June 9, 2014

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