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Greek workers are bracing for a general strike in late June—the third in two months—as workers across the country escalate their protests against budget cuts and wage cuts.

As the United Auto Workers’ Convention unfolds, it's painfully obvious that—despite facing the worst crisis in UAW history—keeping a death grip on power is more important to current leaders than debating the union's future.

Just days after the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) won the June 11 election to lead the Chicago Teachers Union, the reformers were out in front of the Board of Education for an emergency picket against the district’s plan to boost class sizes to 35 and lay off thousands of teachers....

Long after the fanfare of the World Cup soccer tournament dies down, harsh working conditions for the soccer-ball stitchers who make the competition possible will remain. Atrocious work is still pervasive across the industry—which pledged to reform following the “Atlanta Agreement” made 13...

“There are no jobs on a dead planet,” said one union leader to those arguing unions should care only about jobs, not the Earth. But is it fair to put the cost of halting ecological devastation on the fossil-fuel economy's workers?

It’s been a very bad couple of months for worker safety, as deaths mount in horrific disasters from Connecticut to the Gulf Coast. But behind the headlines is a far quieter but equally disturbing story of entirely preventable daily carnage.