Strikes

In a system as segregated as Chicago Public Schools, where a quarter of a million students go to schools where 90 percent or more of their classmates are black …

Squaring off to determine what role - if any - violence is to have in movements like Occupy, the opponents will march into one of the left's most treacherous …

"If it does not prevail, you can be certain that the template for the attack on the union will be carried out across the country against other teachers’ unions …

Election roundup coverage for September 11, 2012. Election countdown leads with Chicago teachers strike.

More electives. Support staff for students who need it. Fair compensation. Recall rights.

The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.

Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.

Thirty-four South African platinum miners were killed by police because of an inter-union spat. The reality is that the massacre reveals far more troubling fault lines.

As one of the biggest teachers unions in the country, the CTU's decision is seen as a fight that could re-energize US labor the way the Wisconsin protests did …

This weekend marks the anniversary of the most brutal confrontation in the history of the American labor movement, the Battle of Blair Mountain.