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Hilario Jimenez, a landscaper on a visa, escaped a pistol-packing employer who kept workers under constant surveillance. He and a guestworkers group are confronting the company's involuntary servitude and human trafficking.

Hotel workers in Irvine, California, did something August 9 almost unheard of recently—they struck a non-union shop. A daylong picket demanded bosses stop denying breaks and pay for years of missed breaktime.

In oppressive heat, Austin construction workers labor without breaks—some without even water. A group that works with immigrant day laborers in the city mounted a “thirst strike” in protest, and spurred the City Council to unanimously pass a rest-break ordinance in late July.

Bangladesh’s 3.5 million apparel workers—who are mostly women—left their shops and took to the streets this month to demand that the minimum wage increase to $72 per month. The current wage, the lowest in the world, was boosted to $43 a month, but as protests and strikes continue, the...

As their strike pushes into its third month, the workers who make Mott’s-brand apple sauce in upstate New York have rallied local labor behind them, and taken their show on the road.

Hundreds of workers rallied in Boston, signaling the beginning of the one year countdown to expiration of the Verizon East contract, covering about 50,000 workers from Massachusetts to Virginia. The rally was only one piece of recent rank and file activity, which has been on the upswing lately...