Strikes

Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.

While the odds are stacked against fast-food workers in this country their protest opens the conversation about raising the minimum wage.

As the hunger strikers enter their 4th week, Pelican Bay prisoner Lorenzo Benton describes what happens at the facility and theu00a0retaliatory actions that have been taken against the hunger …

In a coordinated purge, Walmart has lashed out against workers who walked out in early June.

At stake here is the very meaning of social life and social death, and the continued legacy of slavery, both in the U.S. prison system and in the structure …

Fast food workers in seven U.S. cities are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industryu2019s history.

In this 15th in our series on judicial amendment to the NLRA, we learn how the Supreme Court allowed Deering Milliken to close its Darlington Mills plant rather than …

Workers at Oakland airport concessions are striking against unfair labor practices.

On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners in California refused meals in the third such strike in two years. Prisoners in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, some …

As Walmart threatens to take its revenue out of the District, citizens organize to show politicians they serious about raising the minimum wage.