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Immigrant workers are fighting deportation after ICE officials raided their vans en route to work at Massachusetts' Gillette Stadium. “They told us they were just looking for people with criminal backgrounds,” an organizer said. “Now they’re criminalizing them all.”

There’ll be more music and spoken word than ever at the Labor Notes Conference this weekend: Anne Feeney, Evan Greer, George Mann, Will Copeland, Lynn Marie Smith, and the cast of the jazz opera "Forgotten" will perform.

Before Detroiters voted last fall on a half-billion-dollar bond to renovate and build new schools, the state-appointed schools manager launched a campaign to keep kids in public schools. Now he's planning to put kids out, and sell the district to privateers.

Grocery warehouse workers in northern Massachusetts are putting up a spirited fight with wide support from the rest of labor as their strike ends its sixth week. Workers and allies are making Shaw’s Supermarkets the poster child for corporate greed in the state. . . .

Workers at the Providence Westin Hotel in Rhode Island called a boycott in mid-March when management broke off contract talks after imposing a 20 percent wage cut and quadrupling some employee health plan contributions.

It is legal to fire lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender workers for no other reason than their sexual orientation or gender in most states. LGBT people are organizing to change that, and have gotten the Employment Non-Discrimination Act introduced in Congress. . . .