Labor

  • A spirit of "Yes We Can" pervaded the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care conference in St. Louis. January 15, 2009

  • A spirited crowd of at least 30 protested police harassment of mainly immigrant construction workers as they wait for work in Queens. January 15, 2009

  • SEIU leaders are voting on whether to split--or even eliminate--the 150,000-member United Healthcare Workers West. January 9, 2009

  • Working-class youth urgently need unions in these hard economic times--and labor needs young workers in order to revive. January 7, 2009

  • Workers at two Contra Costa County hotels are fighting attempts to curtail union standards, including increases in health care costs. January 2, 2009

  • One week after administrators slapped us in the face with an insulting "final offer," over 10,000 teachers across Los Angeles rallied in protest. December 16, 2008

  • Teamster reformer and UPS strike leader Ron Carey has passed away, but his legacy remains important for the labor movement. December 16, 2008

  • The vote by workers at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, N.C., plant to join the UFCW is a victory for the whole union movement after a grueling 16-year battle. December 15, 2008

  • The sit-in by workers at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory galvanized solidarity actions across the U.S. December 15, 2008

  • The success of the Chicago window factory occupation is a reminder that workers' power is based at the point of production. December 12, 2008

  • A factory occupation and solidarity movement has forced Bank of America to come up with $2 million to fund two months of wages and health care for workers. December 11, 2008

  • Some 4,600 workers at Smithfield Foods' pork-processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., are voting for union recognition with the UFCW. December 11, 2008

  • Workers are planning a rally at the Bank of America as negotiations fail to resolve the five-day-old occupation of a Chicago factory. December 10, 2008

  • Messages of support for the Republic workers have rolled in from labor and other activists around the world. December 10, 2008

  • As a solidarity movement surges, politicians are promising to help workers in a Chicago factory occupation that's captured the attention of the nation. December 9, 2008

  • A factory occupation in Chicago that began as a show of defiance by 250 workers has become a focus of national and international labor solidarity. December 8, 2008

  • Workers are sitting in at a Chicago windows manufacturing plant that management announced--on just three day's notice--would be shut down. December 6, 2008

  • Hotel workers from the Baltimore City Center Sheraton and their allies came together for a 500-strong march. December 5, 2008

  • A veteran UAW militant takes issue with a proposed auto bailout that would cut tens of thousands of jobs and put retiree health care benefits at risk. December 4, 2008

  • A major fight is brewing between organized labor and Corporate America over proposed pro-union legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act. November 21, 2008

  • Members of the Freightliner Five are vowing to keep fighting until all are reinstated in their jobs at a Cleveland, N.C., truck plant. November 18, 2008

  • The aircraft maker dropped its harshest demands to make a deal with white-collar workers. But some engineers are critical of the contract. November 17, 2008

  • After arbitrators upheld the firing of three of the Freightliner Five, workers are determined to keep up the struggle. November 14, 2008

  • Bakery workers at a cookie and biscuit factory in New York City have been on strike for three months. November 12, 2008

  • Arbitrators in the Freightliner Five case have overturned the firing of two workers, but let stand the termination of three others. November 7, 2008