The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago reached an agreement with school administrators that union negotiators said met members' demands.

Health care workers at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia went on strike Wednesday, holding out against demands to give up free-speech rights, explode health care costs, and hobble the union's power. A rally of 1,200 cheered their resolve.

Graduate student employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago are threatening a strike to protect tuition waivers and to put a floor underneath graduate employees’ meager earnings.

From around the nation, immigrant rights activists say they've had enough of broken promises and broken laws. Protestors are on their way to D.C. to voice frustration with an immigration system they say is worse under Obama.

Whether Congress passes a weak health care bill this month or puts the debate out of its misery altogether, labor’s single-payer activists are showing no signs of slinking out of sight. . . .

A 48-day, 250-mile march across California is carrying the fight against the devastation of the state's K-12 schools and vaunted public colleges, once the gateway to opportunity for the working class, to cities and towns hit hard in the recession.

It’s day 58 of the miners’ lockout in the harsh desert of Boron, California. From the pews to the union halls, the coffee shops, and schools, the town has galvanized into a community driven for its very survival.

For eight months 3,000 Steelworkers have been on strike at Vale Inco mines in Ontario, standing against a crush of concessions. They rejected an insulting settlement offer by 87 percent in mid-March.

Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California’s embattled public education system March 4. And the action paused only briefly as activists savored short-term victories and set about planning the next wave of challenges to lawmakers and administrators.

Everyone wants to “be his own boss,” right? But when a real boss says you're an independent contractor, often it’s to steal wages and cheat on taxes. Worker centers are striking back as lawmakers look to haul in tax-shirking employers.

The “reinvention” of the “New GM” began with the opening of a lithium-ion battery plant in Brownstown, Michigan, near Detroit. The event not only signals GM’s return to electric vehicles—for the first time in about 30 years, GM has opened a non-union plant in the U.S.

Labor’s campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act appears to have failed. It’s time for our movement to rethink a long-term strategy to change this country’s dysfunctional labor laws, starting by putting modern union busting on trial.

The chambers of the legislature are a sea of red. Hundreds of Vermonters, many of them wearing the red T-shirts of the Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign, have driven in to attend a January hearing on universal, single-payer health care. . . .

Want to know what chutzpah means? Look no further than TV's newest reality show, “Undercover Boss.” Apparently the titans of industry aren't satisfied that they burned our economy to the ground and got nothing but a slap on the wrist from Washington. They want us to like them, too.

The version of health insurance legislation that passed the House of Representatives Sunday will affect workers in ways both obvious and not so obvious.

Healthy unions should welcome workplace discontent. Stewards can turn discontent into campaigns that build workplace power. Sometimes, though, too much unproductive discontent is floating around. What's a steward to do?

Dole Food is trying to crush Filipino pineapple workers’ right to organize. Beyond facing stagnant real wages, high quotas, and up to a 72-hour work week with no overtime pay, workers and their families are exposed to toxic chemicals and not given proper safety equipment.

Twenty-one Bangladeshi garment workers were killed February 26 when a sweater factory caught fire. Its goods are purchased by major chains, including H&M. Unions and labor federations are demanding that manufacturers and the government address workers’ safety concerns, but H&M is hiding behind the mirage of self-regulation.