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The strike at the Yue Yuen shoe factory keeps growing. Activists are asking international supporters to leaflet stores, and to send workers encouragement via the hashtag #ChinaSolidarity.
Burlington bus drivers started with a Sunday Morning Breakfast Club. They ended up marching miles with high school students and winning an 18-day strike.
Audiences in Washington state and British Columbia can expect the unexpected, from Irish ballads to union sing-alongs to political punk anthems.
Steelworkers are holding the line against two-tier wages and pensions at a can plant in Toronto—ruining the plans of their employer, manufacturing giant Crown Holdings.
Auto workers who build brakes for Jeep in Toledo, Ohio, walked out to demand union recognition—threatening Jeep production.
Unions in some cities are jumping on Seattle's bandwagon, but all of labor needs to take the big public support for a $15 minimum wage, and run with it.
When Labor Notes began in 1979, the founders didn't know what a rocky road lay ahead. What have we all learned over 35 years?
Cesar Chavez in the new biopic is a flat, one-dimensional character who does everything unassisted. The organizers on whose shoulders he stood are ignored or reduced to bit players. But a documentary and a new biography do a better job of assessing this complex character.
Browse our gallery of pictures from the 2014 Labor Notes Conference, April 4-6 in Chicago, and catch a few of the speeches on video.
After a relentless labor-community campaign, UPS waved the white flag and agreed to rehire all 250 New York City drivers the company fired last month.
Need an inspiration fix? Here are a few video highlights for those who couldn't make it to the record-breaking 2014 Labor Notes Conference—or those already ready to relive it.
Factory-style methods—including deskilling, micromanagement of work tasks, speed-up, formation of teams, contracting out, and creation of tiers in the workforce—are now being imported wholesale into schools.
The 2014 Labor Notes Conference was the largest yet. Though labor’s official numbers are declining, its troublemaking wing seems to be gaining confidence.
Despite the "age of austerity," teachers are beginning to win some battles—by winning over hearts and minds in the communities they serve.
Local officers tried to push through a big dues increase without convincing justification, but members put the brakes on. More than 400 wrote letters to the local, district, and national union with concerns about how the vote was taken.
