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Close to 1,000 Freedom Riders set off from ten cities across the country to converge on Washington, D.C. on October 2 and Queens, New York on October 4 to demand an end to the abuse heaped on immigrants. Tens of thousands of union and community members rallied for the grand finale...

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For two years now the strike weapon has been in decline as a tactic in the United States...

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D. David Beckman now works in the electronics department of a Fred Meyer department store in the Seattle area, where he makes less than 25% of the $40 to $45 an hour he earned as a tech writer with Microsoft...

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This year, for the first time, the United Auto Workers negotiated contracts with the Big Three auto makers almost simultaneously, rather than setting a pattern at one company, sending it to members for ratification, and then negotiating with the other two...

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Since September 11, the global justice movement has been struggling to regain its footing...

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AFSCME Local 209 -- the union for nearly 900 grounds, maintenance, and food service workers at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio -- carried out the first strike in the school’s 194-year history this fall...

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Fed up with SEIU’s refusal to listen to the needs of its members, Brown University’s library and facilities units voted on August 25-26 to leave the International and form an independent union, the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island (USAW-RI). Providence Public Library members voted on September 10 to join them and others will follow...

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At the end of a two-hour ride from Bangalore, just where the southern state of Karnataka meets the adjoining state of Tamil Nadu, I was met by C. Parthiban, a slightly graying handsome man with an ironic smile...