Hundreds turned out to protest the Los Angeles Times for the public flogging the Times has rendered to scores of dedicated LA teachers, rating individual teachers on a discredited “effectiveness” scale based on test scores.

A three-week confrontation in South Africa closed schools and reduced hospital services to bare bones. The strike's demands highlighted disparities between public and private, Black and white.

Taxi Workers Alliance member Ahmed Sharif was attacked August 24, a tragic sign of anti-Muslim hysteria swelling from the controversial plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero.

Early July 21 police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra. A shamefaced officer told President Hashmeya Muhsin that they'd come to shut the union down.

Robert De Niro burned the image of the unstable taxi driver into American consciousness in the 1974 film “Taxi Driver,” but real-life drivers across the U.S. have long faced their own forms of enforced workplace instability.

Under the slogan “win the change we voted for," unions and allied organizations have begun work organizing a big rally in Washington for October 2 to show their numbers and demand fair, decent jobs.

After 18 months of legal delays and workplace skirmishes, the stage is set for a decisive confrontation between the National Union of Healthcare Workers and the Service Employees.

An appalling consensus has developed among Washington elites: they tell themselves cutting Social Security is a slam-dunk. We’ll have to learn to live with less, we’re told. But our side can win this fight if we mobilize quickly and smartly.

The people most likely to know just how crucial Social Security is—retirees—are holding more than 100 events to celebrate Social Security’s 75th birthday and tell Congress to keep hands off. Chapters of the Alliance for Retired Americans, an AFL-CIO affiliate, are organizing events around the country this month and next.

Social Security is quite healthy now—but it will need more cash eventually. Who should pony up? The vast majority of working Americans, suddenly forced to work through what they’d been promised would be their golden years? Or the biggest earners, the top 6 percent?

The Big Lie technique is working. Polls show that six out of 10 Americans who aren’t yet retired think Social Security won’t be there for them—with the youngest workers the most pessimistic. And more than half of current retirees predict their benefits will be cut. When your co-workers tell you Social Security is a bankrupt lost cause, set them straight. Here are the facts.

According to politicians and pundits across the spectrum, the biggest economic threat to the country is not the suffering of millions of unemployed people but the specter of ballooning federal debt. (Deficits are the shortfalls in any given year, debt is the grand total.) Why this sudden obsession with government debt?

When President Obama named his Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform this spring, he chose 18 wealthy members for whom Social Security will make up only a tiny fraction of their retirement income. The commission is charged with reporting back December 1 with recommendations on how to decrease the ballooning federal budget deficit.

With any luck, unions that haven't shown a majority in an election could soon gain bargaining rights. Unions began as “members-only” in the '30s, and a return to that bottom-up organizing could be a boost.

Hilario Jimenez, a landscaper on a visa, escaped a pistol-packing employer who kept workers under constant surveillance. He and a guestworkers group are confronting the company's involuntary servitude and human trafficking.

Modern-day Freedom Riders took the bus from Los Angeles to Phoenix July 29 to show solidarity with those protesting the new anti-immigrant law. They were supporting thousands of Phoenix residents and their ongoing vigil now on day 103.

The Obama administration announced July 30 it would finally take formal action against Guatemala to address violations of worker rights.

Clothing companies have to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to respect workers’ rights, says Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a monitoring organization that investigates labor standards in apparel factories worldwide.

Unlike our Teamster sisters and brothers here, workers for UPS in Turkey have no union. And over the past few months, workers seeking to organize have faced repression. To date more than 120 union members and workers sympathetic to TÜMTIS, a Turkish transport union, have been fired from UPS Turkey. Some have faced violence and intimidation from management.

The labor movement has long debated its priority: organize new members or represent the ones we have? We've had to do both, or we could do neither. Our local has found that we grow because of the strength of current members.