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Remember when U.S. workers were promised that trade pacts based on the North American Free Trade Agreement model would boost exports and create millions of jobs? The numbers are in, and they don't look good.

Fifteen thousand Canadian auto parts workers staged noon-hour rallies at work October 27, protesting companies' demands for wage cuts and two-tier wages. Citing previous concessions, officials said, "We're drawing the line."

Domestic workers are specifically denied bargaining rights under New York state’s labor law, but childcare givers, housekeepers, and elder care workers gathered today in downtown Manhattan to begin a campaign to change that.

Public employees are the “welfare queens” of the 2010s--the ones supposedly feeding at the public trough, at our expense. This video argues that public employees aren’t living that high off the hog.

Teachers laboring under slashed budgets in crowded classrooms, under intense pressure to raise student test scores, now face a fresh challenge—from Hollywood's pro-charter school documentary, “Waiting for Superman.”

Larry Hanley was elected president last month of the 190,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union, which organizes bus drivers and other transit workers in cities across the U.S. and Canada. Delegates to the ATU convention voted 372-272 for Hanley over incumbent Ron Heintzman.