Labor

  • Educators in Oregon are resisting an unprecedented attack on their schools and unions as another district begins a strike. May 21, 2012

  • Workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport kept up their struggle with a protest at the Alaska Airlines shareholders' meeting. May 21, 2012

  • Some 100 hotel workers and their supporters picketed in front of a San Diego Hilton Hotel to kick off a fight for union recognition. May 16, 2012

  • Dozens of union members and Occupy activists came together in Brevard, Fla., to rally for a pay raise for all teachers. May 14, 2012

  • San Francisco teachers are holding a strike vote May 10 that could put teachers on the picket line in September. May 10, 2012

  • Underpaid and overworked, truck drivers at the Toll Group operation in the Port of Los Angeles have voted overwhelmingly for union representation. May 9, 2012

  • Nearly 800 members of the International Association of Machinists are on strike at a Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Ill. May 8, 2012

  • Student, community and labor activists are supporting a union drive at the Flex-N-Gate factory in Urbana, Ill. May 7, 2012

  • Thousands of Illinois union members mobilized to tell Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels that his anti-worker laws aren't welcome. May 2, 2012

  • More than 300 people rallied at Seattle Tacoma International Airport in defense of workers who don't have union contracts. May 2, 2012

  • Some 3,650 IAM members are on strike against aerospace giant Lockheed Martin after voting down a concessions contract. April 30, 2012

  • The Occupy movement's alliance with labor showed the potential support for a fightback, but unions are still in retreat. April 25, 2012

  • Some 150 people disrupted an opening event for the Seattle Space Needle's 50th anniversary to stand up for union rights. April 25, 2012

  • Teachers in three Portland-area school districts facing tough contract fights are organizing solidarity for their struggles. April 23, 2012

  • San Francisco school officials want to bypass seniority in teacher layoffs at several schools with large minority student populations. April 19, 2012

  • As private companies go to bankruptcy court to slash pensions, states are using laws to gut retirement for public employees. April 17, 2012

  • Three budget-slashing, anti-union school districts in the Portland area have pushed teachers to take strike votes. April 16, 2012

  • Guards at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts are locked in a struggle over management's relentless focus on the bottom line. April 16, 2012

  • Workers and their allies want the Flex-N-Gate company to provide better working conditions and stop union-busting efforts. April 11, 2012

  • "Occupy the Post Office!" is the call from a newly formed national rank-and-file network of postal workers and allies. April 9, 2012

  • School boards in the Portland area are taking aim at local teachers' unions--but teachers want to make a united stand. March 28, 2012

  • After a long and bitter lockout, workers voted to accept a two-tier wage scale at an Ohio tire plant. March 20, 2012

  • A locked-out worker at American Crystal Sugar explains the stakes in this important Midwestern labor struggle. March 15, 2012

  • The showdown between the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is over nothing less than the future of public education in the city. March 13, 2012

  • The National Union of Healthcare Workers is using the strike weapon as it takes on California's health care giant. March 8, 2012