Low-wage retail jobs in New York City aren't easy, and discrimination, wage theft, and hazardous conditions make them even lousier. A settlement for 17 workers could be a springboard to a citywide living wage, though.

Just days after the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) won the June 11 election to lead the Chicago Teachers Union, the reformers were out in front of the Board of Education for an emergency picket against the district’s plan to boost class sizes to 35 and lay off thousands of teachers.

A flurry of strikes in Honda parts plants in China has produced the longest and most significant work stoppages and wage gains for workers there in recent years. Is this the opening wave in a tide of resistance that will lead to a transformation of work and labor in China? The beginning of the end of the global race to the bottom? Or something else?

While the nation reels from its first look at Arizona’s immigrant-bashing lawmaking, advocates here are outraged but not surprised. April's SB 1070 law was just the latest bomb to drop in a long-term assault on the rights of Arizona's immigrants.

Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief when the International Monetary Fund and European governments agreed to “bail out”—that is, lend money to—the government of Greece last month. Investors were worried that panic in banking circles would spread across southern Europe, reviving the worldwide economic crisis.

The Red Cross rewarded blood-donation workers with a selective lockout mid-June following a three-day strike in six states. Seven unions coordinated the strike.

Twelve thousand Twin Cities nurses are facing off against corporate health care, taking a one-day strike June 10 and authorizing an open-ended strike Monday. Like every state without nurse-to-patient ratios, staffing is the key issue.

Chicken processing workers stopped the line for an hour at the Case Farms plant in Morganton, North Carolina, over dangerous and abusive conditions. The remarkable wildcat action won the non-union and largely immigrant workforce several gains.

As the United Auto Workers’ Convention unfolds, it's painfully obvious that—despite facing the worst crisis in UAW history—keeping a death grip on power is more important to current leaders than debating the union's future.

A contested presidential election, grassroots social media, and reams of leaflets—auto worker activists are doing everything they can to make sure the 35th UAW Constitutional Convention doesn’t run to script.

Greek workers are bracing for a general strike in late June—the third in two months—as workers across the country escalate their protests against budget cuts and wage cuts.

Community and union groups in Richmond, California, notched two victories against oil giant Chevron, but not before the company worked hard to pit them against other. Years of on-the-ground organizing brought residents and some workers together for a healthier city with good jobs.

One of a negotiating committee’s biggest challenges is holding on to affordable health insurance. The latest attempt to chisel our coverage is “lower-cost” high-deductible plans and Health Savings Accounts—which make us pay huge up-front deductibles.

Postal workers are asking for your help to save the vital services they provide, along with their jobs and unions. Postal Service management is planning to close more than 100 local post offices, consolidate others, and end Saturday delivery.

Long after the fanfare of the World Cup soccer tournament dies down, harsh working conditions for the soccer-ball stitchers who make the competition possible will remain. Atrocious work is still pervasive across the industry—which pledged to reform following the “Atlanta Agreement” made 13 years ago. That supposedly bound major firms including Adidas and Nike to end child labor in soccer-ball factories.