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The Restaurant Opportunities Center released a report this week showing nearly 90 percent of restaurant workers have no health insurance or paid sick days. The worker center called for an increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers, still just $2.13 an hour. It would be the first increase...

Wisconsin’s Republican governor inadvertently issued a wake-up call to the state’s labor movement by pushing legislation that would crush public employee unions. Wisconsin unions and allies quickly rallied, flooding the Capitol.

Tonight the mood is not only peaceful, it is exuberant, joyful, celebratory: dancing, fire throwers, firecrackers, cheers, yells, and joy in the air. Egypt is finally free. An American writes from Cairo.

Shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, Labor Notes talked with a teacher unionist in Cairo, amid sounds of joyous celebration. The regime's collapse came amid a massive series of strikes this week.

Though all eyes are on Cairo and its Liberation Square, few could know that Egyptian workers have been striking in huge numbers for years. Today, strikes became a central part of the protests, with more than 20,000 workers walking out.

England's conservative government says voluntarism can compensate for enormous cuts to the public sector. The idea is unrealistic and an excuse for more privatization.

Los Angeles teacher union activists embrace neither corporate education reform nor the status quo in schools. They're fighting to center schools around social justice, fund them fully, and develop teachers in a pro-union environment.