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Protests continue into the fourth day here in Madison and the mood is electric. Representatives of nearly every major union in Wisconsin have come to the capitol in solidarity with state workers, clearly recognizing the bill as a union-buster having nothing to do with the budget.
The last the demonstrators in the Wisconsin Capitol heard, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state, leaving the Senate one vote shy of a quorum and unable to consider Governor Scott Walker’s bill to strip us of our bargaining rights.
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...
Teachers’ unions have announced a return to work in Wisconsin, but the protests will not let up. Meanwhile, some union leaders have said they will accept the governor’s economic takeaways. Rank and filers say they've already given too much.
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.
As a nurse who has had her life and career forever altered from a debilitating back injury that occurred on the job, I am outraged by the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw a rule requiring employers to report musculoskeletal injuries to the Occupational Safety and...
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.
Hyatt hotel workers are on the march again. They’re calling out management’s push for more work in less time, plus the chain’s demands to push more health care costs onto workers and “lock in the recession” at the bargaining table.
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.
Protests in Egypt escalated this week when thousands of emboldened workers across the country walked off or sat down on the job. A wildcat action that began Tuesday among 6,000 workers in the Suez Canal, however, could rock the Egyptian economy, amplifying the leverage of pro-democracy...
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.
In San Francisco, the Young Workers United worker center takes the long view, building membership and mobilizing to advocate for improved working conditions—with unusual success.
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.
The Mexican-themed fast food chain Chipotle likes to hold itself up as a model of social responsibility, but labor activists in Minnesota say its ethical behavior doesn’t extend to its immigrant workers. Chipotle fired nearly 700 Latino immigrant workers without notice and in some cases without...
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.
