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As the sun dipped behind California Hall on UC Berkeley's campus last night, a team of hunger strikers, both students and campus workers, emerged with agreements from a recalcitrant administration to evaluate several of their demands. The hugs, shaking hands, smiles, and bread-breaking made it...

Nearly every book written about the UFW has placed Cesar Chavez front and center, and most of them have portrayed him as a cross between Gandhi and Jesus Christ. Miriam Pawel’s fine account of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers Union has the great virtue of not making Chavez its main...

Teachers picketed outside every Oakland district school, turning away many scabs and shutting down classes. Seeing students and parents lined up behind educators, district officials backed away from their attempt to impose harsh contract terms.

Image-conscious global brand operating in a repressive environment seeks to downplay workers’ complaints. No surprise. But this story has a couple of twists. For one, the repressive environment is the state of Virginia.

As technicians at cable giant Comcast celebrated a rare organizing victory in New Jersey last month, fellow techs in Ohio and New York reported a more familiar result: two more campaigns done in by Comcast’s anti-union machine.

Thousands gathered in Manhattan April 29 calling for good jobs and accountability from Wall Street. Four entire four blocks were full of union members, community and housing activists, and retirees with signs declaring “Make Wall Street Pay.”