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Decades after a sanitation strike Martin Luther King was assassinated while supporting, the union King backed may lose jobs to privatization. The attack follows rallies nationwide honoring his sacrifice.

When union members were encouraged to support the health care bills passed in Massachusetts in 2006 and by Congress last year, they were told there’d be less health care cost-shifting from employers onto employees.

Grocery workers in Southern California are digging in their heels against health care givebacks demanded by three profitable supermarket chains.

Unfazed by the rebellion that has shaken their state since February, Republican legislators in Wisconsin called an “extraordinary session” to push through every aspect of the right-wing agenda they can lay a pen to.

Four years of pressure forced cigarette manufacturer Reynolds American to agree to meet with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to discuss working conditions in its supply chain. Union activists pointed to subminimum wages as well as illnesses and heat-stroke deaths among tobacco pickers.

California’s United Farm Workers finally got a bill past the state legislature providing for majority sign-up union recognition. But in Canada, the country's highest court rubberstamped a law denying collective bargaining to 80,000 farmworkers in the province.