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Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are waging a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades. Bank workers have shut down 8,328 banks in the country’s 26 states.
Unions and activists are rushing to the Wall Street occupation to return the nation’s focus to the executives, bankers, and politicians who got us into this mess. But in a refreshing change, labor is recognizing it can’t control what’s happening.
After nearly a year locked out of their jobs, porters and maintenance workers at a massive New York housing complex see a ray of hope. A Labor Board complaint described the lockout as “inherently destructive” of workers’ rights, making the 70 Service Employees members optimistic they will...
As the clock ticks down to a midnight Thursday strike deadline, railroaders aren’t holding their breaths despite a 97 percent strike vote by the Engineers union. President Obama will likely order a “cooling off period.”
It’s a cruel joke for Democrats to trot out language about “labor standards” to defend trade pacts with Colombia, Korea, and Panama. Previous trade deals make it obvious brands like Walmart like the current sweatshop system just the way it is.
A nearly two-week strike by teachers in Tacoma, Washington, defied state laws against public sector work stoppages—and showed that when much-vilified public workers take bold action, they can win public sympathy.
Protesters united under the banner of "We are the 99 percent" have occupied the Wall Street area for two weeks. Now several New York unions are planning rallies in support, taking a stand against runaway corporate power.
The union’s convention this week, in Pittsburgh, showed the UE spirit alive and kicking despite the hammering it’s taken along with the rest of the labor movement.
Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.
The nation’s postal unions organized 492 rallies across the country Tuesday in support of federal legislation that would relieve the burdensome requirement that postal employees pre-fund decades worth of retirees’ benefits.
With NBC airing a second “Education Nation” special that resembles an infomercial for charter schools and online learning, the media watchdog group FAIR held an event Tuesday to clear the air.
Philadelphia’s Troublemakers School saw classrooms full of union activists eager to work together and share. For many of the 125 participants, the opportunity to communicate with each other about their experience as organizers in the workplace was rare and important.
The story line from Postal Service management is simple and apocalyptic: The public is emailing and paying bills online, bankrupting the post office. Postal unions say that's dead wrong: They say the bosses are manufacturing a crisis to push a union-busting privatization agenda. The unions are...
At a time when most union action is perceived as press-ganging members to get out the vote or get to a rally, the Longview protests look like something out the ILWU’s origins in the tumultuous 1930s.
A grain exporter's attempt to operate a new facility without longshore labor has met stiff resistance in the Pacific Northwest. Police responded by breaking up protests and arresting about 135 unionists, prompting the union to sue to stop “ongoing police brutality."
