Robert Reich served under President Clinton as his Secretary of Labor and is proud of the fact that he served what he calls "one of the most pro-business administrations in American history."

With 28% of nearly 10,000 votes cast, Smithfield Chairman Joseph Luter III narrowly beat out American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey to win the seventh annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice.

First of all, the People’s Weekly World (which continues the Daily Worker, founded in 1924) has a very long history of what we call working-class journalism.

Off-year election results in state and municipal races on Nov. 6 show union voters are already energized for 2008, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney says.

Defying yet another veto threat by anti-worker GOP President George W. Bush, the Democratic-run House mustered a bipartisan 264-157 vote on Oct. 31 to extend and expand Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Key Democratic electoral victories in Kentucky and Virginia this week – fueled mainly by labor movement volunteers – signal good things to come for working families in those states.

No Child Left Behind law (NCLB) comes up for re-authorization in the current session of Congress. The law, originally passed in 2002, is the Bush Administration’s response to rising demands for an increased federal role in support of public education.

In rousing pro-worker speeches to a packed hall of 1,000 unionists, two of the top three Democratic presidential hopefuls--Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.)--promised to walk with union picket lines even after they are elected to the White House.

In this interview, the General Secretary of ITUC, Guy Ryder, comments the report and clears the international union views on the issues of sustainable growth, corporate social responsibility and competitiveness.

The Crandall Canyon Mine has claimed three lives. Six miners have been trapped since an August 6th collapse. Three rescue workers were killed and six others injured in a second collapse on August 16th.

Last Friday, mine safety officials suspended underground efforts to rescue six trapped miners in the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah.

325 federal safety citations were issued on the Crandall Canyon Mine located northwest of Huntington, Utah, in which Louis Alonso Hernandez, Manuel Sanchez, Kerry Allred, Brandon Phillips, Don Erickson, and Carlos Payan have been trapped for almost two weeks.

Labor union activists from around the country and workers at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, North Carolina plant will converge on the Smithfield Foods' 2007 Shareholders Meeting on August 29th in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Working families are deeply concerned about their health care coverage, especially the health care costs that are major contributors to the eroding standard of living for middle-class Americans.

While the new Labor Contract Law will come into force next year, there remains controversy over exactly how it will be implemented.

Hermilo Lopez, a Mixtec immigrant from San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca, works in a crew picking bell peppers. He's 61 years old.

On Tuesday the Senate voted 51-48 to end a Republican filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would strengthen workers' right to choose a union.

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 ICE agents in a show of repressive force swooped down on a New Bedford manufacturing plant and arrested 361 undocumented workers.

US Congress passed a $120 billion emergency Iraq spending bill May 24, 2007, that included an increase in the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25. President Bush signed it into law May 25, 2007, ending a standoff over the wage issue.

On June 23, 1947, U.S. labor law turned upside down. That’s when the Republican-run 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, by overriding a scathing veto by Democratic President Harry S Truman and over intense opposition from organized labor.