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For eight months 3,000 Steelworkers have been on strike at Vale Inco mines in Ontario, standing against a crush of concessions. They rejected an insulting settlement offer by 87 percent in mid-March.

A 48-day, 250-mile march across California is carrying the fight against the devastation of the state's K-12 schools and vaunted public colleges, once the gateway to opportunity for the working class, to cities and towns hit hard in the recession.

Two myths have surrounded Toyota’s rise to dominance in the global auto industry: (1) Toyota is about quality for the customer, and (2) Toyota’s quality and productivity are forged on respect for its workforce.

The version of health insurance legislation that passed the House of Representatives Sunday will affect workers in ways both obvious and not so obvious.

Whether Congress passes a weak health care bill this month or puts the debate out of its misery altogether, labor’s single-payer activists are showing no signs of slinking out of sight. . . .

From around the nation, immigrant rights activists say they've had enough of broken promises and broken laws. Protestors are on their way to D.C. to voice frustration with an immigration system they say is worse under Obama.

The chambers of the legislature are a sea of red. Hundreds of Vermonters, many of them wearing the red T-shirts of the Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign, have driven in to attend a January hearing on universal, single-payer health care. . . .