Strikes

100,000 workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn't working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926.

In both Mexico and the United States, schools are an ideological battleground.

Wal-Mart workers have launched historic labor protests and strikes across 28 stores in 12 states, the first retail worker strike in the companyu2019s 50-year history.

Striking steelworkers lament the lost golden era of industry and anxiously confront a future marked by perpetual decline.

A new phase of labor challenges to Walmart seems to be unfolding.

When Greece took an unfortunate pioneering role in the economic crisis, economic shock therapy meant that most working people saw their lives turned upside down in a matter of …

Warehouse Workers United picket in Southern California. Theirs was the first of two strikes against Walmart warehouses in one week.

Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.

Reforming public education must be part of—not a substitute for—a broader movement for economic justice.

Karen Lewis, the union president, described the voice vote as 98 percent to 2 percent in favor and a sign that the deal was seen as good, though hardly …