There is no free press locally, and by that I mean in the greater Seattle area which can be seen as stretching from Seattle to the East Bay, and southward to Tacoma. My definition of a free press is a newspaper that covers, and gives voice to, all the social and economic classes of people who live in the wider polis.

Los activistas sindicales y pro derechos civiles están presionando al Congreso actual a que se apruebe la Ley de No Discriminación en el Empleo (ENDA por sus siglas en inglés).

Civil rights and labor activists are pushing the current Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards just endorsed a bill pending before Oregon's state legislature that would enable state employees to win the right to union representation and collective bargaining by having a majority in a workplace sign a membership card or a petition for it.

African American and immigrant security guards in San Francisco buildings march to pressure security companies and building owners into improving wages and conditions.

Never before in U.S. history has an actual decline in the economic fortunes of workers across the board been so clearly the deliberate, planned result of public policies.

Fue contestada una cuestión central para el movimiento sindical norteamericano con las elecciones del año pasado. Reconstruir al movimiento sindical de los trabajadores exige combinar a las iniciativas organizadoras frescas e innovadoras con la acción política.

On May Day immigrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Bridgeton, NJ, a small town with high unemployment, and a growing community of Latino immigrants.

In our time, May Day, the international holiday of the labor and socialist movements, developed out of labor's struggle against exploitation and socialism's dedication to the regeneration and empowerment of the working class.

The Employee Free Choice Act is the most important legislative proposal in at least a generation, and arguably since passage of the Wagner Act, to protect the fundamental human right of America's workers to form unions and bargain collectively.

The phenomenal rise of the multi-million-dollar union-busting industry in the U.S. has paralleled the decline in the manufacturing base, the rise of the right wing and the decline in union membership of the past 30-some years.

One big question for the US labor movement was answered by the midterm elections last year. Rebuilding the labor movement has to combine fresh and innovative organizing approaches with political action.

The class struggle has its origins in actual exploitative practices, which in turn are traceable to an integrated, global system of exploitation. The ceaseless accumulation of capital and the exploitation of wage labor are two sides of a single coin.

Twelve students at The University of Vermont have launched a hunger strike demanding a living wage for the university's lower paid staff, according to the Student Labor Action Project.

Pooling resources and banding together with those who share similar beliefs and goals is a basic right that all of use every day.

Civil rights and labor activists will be pushing the current Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

For the last several months, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have carried out well-publicized immigration raids in factories, meatpacking plants, janitorial services, and other workplaces employing immigrants.

Autoworkers face one of their biggest challenges ever: how to fight in an era of globalization when companies threaten to move ever more production abroad to get the lowest wages and benefits possible.

American history as taught in the US frequently emphasizes that one of the by products of the Civil War between the states during the mid-19th century was the elimination of slavery. And students learn about the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States that made slavery illegal.

A closer look at the amendment, however, shows the prohibition against slavery to be far from absolute...

Candidates will be judged on the issues and on the ability to continue to expand and deepen the broad people’s coalition, which is the only way we can wrest control away from the right wing.