Workers unite!

Chicago postal protest previews April 24 rallies

Chicago -- Over 700 postal and other workers walked a picket line in front of a Chicago area Staples store…

April 12, 2014

On the picket line

NYC building workers march for a raise A sea of yellow and purple Service Employees union Local 32BJ flags swept…

April 12, 2014

Challenge to labor movement: UPS fires 250 union workers

Bosses fire workers for being late. But Jairo Reynes, a 24-year United Parcel Service worker at the company’s Maspeth hub…

April 9, 2014

MLK & jobs

On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while showing solidarity with…

April 9, 2014

Black Workers for Justice banquet

Black Workers for Justice held their 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Support for Labor Banquet in Raleigh, N.C., on…

April 8, 2014

Marxism and long-term unemployment

A study published by Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute in January compiled figures on unemployment that have important…

April 5, 2014

Detroiters reject austerity

April 1 — More than 500 loud and angry workers marched at the federal bankruptcy court in Detroit to voice…

April 3, 2014

March for $15 minimum wage takes place in Bay Area

Oakland, Calif. -- Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2850, on March 27 several hundred East Bay hotel, restaurant and stadium…

April 1, 2014