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Nine thousand college students, labor activists, and human rights advocates from across South Korea gathered Saturday to support a woman welder who has been staging a lone sit-in since January on top of a 115-foot shipyard crane. But on Tuesday Kim Jin-suk tweeted that security guards had begun...

A sunny day on Lansing’s Capitol lawn brought the Michigan Nurses Association out today to hold a soup kitchen serving people left in need by the state’s drastic budget cuts.

Faculty members in Florida’s public institutions of higher learning have responded to the state legislature’s attack on public employee unionism by building unions in their right-to-work state at an outstanding rate.

Protesting cuts to their pensions and a higher retirement age, 600,000 public sector workers and teachers struck across Britain June 30, and rallied in 80 towns and cities. They say bigger strikes are in store this fall.

On June 24 the California Zephyr, Amtrak passenger Train #5, was struck broadside at a Nevada crossing by a tandem gondola truck. Human error played a role, apparently—but what measures could actually help keep workers and passengers safe?

Sandy Pope, a Teamster local leader, won nomination for the Teamsters presidency at the union's Vegas convention. Backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union, she made it into the next stage of a three-way race that culminates this fall.