Labor

May Boeve from 350.org and Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union discuss how the environmental and labor movements have united to organize the People's Climate Summit in New …

As the school year begins, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is launching his signature initiative of full-day universal prekindergarten at public schools.

FedEx has been pretending that their employees are u201cindependent contractorsu201d even though they are FedEx employees. Just in time for Labor Day, a court ruled they are indeed FedEx …

On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America.

In the midst of a global fight against child labor and poverty, Bolivia stands alone on an empty street.

While the attention on the Ebola epidemic that has now been declared “out-of-control” is focused on the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria, unaffected countries …

This is one of the most sweeping and captivating labor struggles in the private sector in years.

It was the day Michael Brown was to start his first day of college. Instead, it became the day he would be buried.

If rulings start coming out against the corporate office, that should help turn up the heat on McDonald's.

When the schools reopen in Ferguson, teachers would do well to close up the jingoistic textbooks.