Unions

The stakes couldnu2019t be higher for postal workers, who are battling wave after wave of attacksu2014post offices and sorting plants closing, work privatizing, delivery standards eroding.

SEIU may be spawning a force that will rise above its managerial powers by encouraging workers to take direct action at their workplaces.

If the Supreme Court outlaws neutrality agreements, it will give Hyatt and many other employers a reason to renege on unions' hard-won pacts.

The US's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, pledged at its '13 convention to work more closely with community-based affiliates & its grassroots organizing arm, Working America.

On August 29, 2013, the 60,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced it was leaving the 13-million member AFL-CIO.

Without the commitment to build a social movement, all the innovative ideas coming out of the AFL-CIO convention may come to little, if anything.

This week's AFL-CIO convention endorsed the expansion of membership to include non-traditional labor organizations, including non-profits organizing low-wage workers.

Fast-food workers feed their families on a pittance while the big corporations resist fair pay and sick leave.

While discussion of poverty has been lacking since President Reagan railed that the poor were responsible for their own plight, new signs of concern and fresh thinking have emerged, …

Wage theft, in all its many forms, is rampant across all industries, but it hurts low-wage workers the most.