In a letter circulated this week to the staff and leadership of the United Steelworkers union (USW), USW President Leo Gerard expressed jubilation at the election of Barack Obama.

In his victory speech on Nov. 4th, President-elect Barack Obama dedicated his victory to the American people. "I will never forget," he said, "who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you."

Amid the deepening global financial crisis that has triggered an economic downturn, the socially disadvantaged are suffering most. At the world's leading automaker, Toyota Motor Corporation is firing a large number of fixed-term employees.

This is a very challenging moment in our history, but also a moment filled with opportunities, including the chance to take a big step forward in our fight for worker justice.

To the tune of tens of millions of dollars, multinational retail giant Wal-Mart has been funding a right-wing political agenda, according to the Web site WaltonInfluence.com.

John McCain was right about one thing. Jobs are being lost. This week the Department of Labor reported that 159,000 American workers lost their jobs in September, a five-year record. The Labor Department reported the ninth straight month of job losses, approaching 800,000 lost jobs in 2008.

The week of September 29th, 2008 opened with the failure in Congress of the Bush bailout plan. Ongoing opposition to a Wall Street bailout without preconditions may have major repercussions. Read below.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Barack Obama emphasized the need to bail out working families not just Wall Street at a campaign stop here, Thursday, Oct. 2.

Indigenous Mixtec farm workers in a crew of migrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero pick avocados on the Parks ranch in Goleta, on the California coast near Santa Barbara.

A few weeks back, we received an e-mail alert from a friend to take action on behalf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) on standing up for California public workers in the face of steep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Conservatives have expanded Canada's role in the bloody military occupation in Afghanistan, which is now extended until at least 2011. To date, 97 Canadians and thousands of Afghans have died in this tragic war, which has cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $8 billion.

This year the Better World Awards was held on Saturday June 14, 2008. The event took place at the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium at 1199 SEIU.

The week of September 15, 2008 has been a dramatic and unprecedented period in the world of high finance. The economic crisis is not over despite what some pundits and politicians have claimed. A series of government interventions have changed the map of banking and finance.

Linking the financial crisis on Wall Street to the economic struggles of working families, Barack Obama, in a speech today, Sept. 19th, in Miami, Florida, called for "even bolder and more decisive action" than the Bush administration has been willing to take.

The labor movement sharply criticized the Bush administration's and John McCain's responses to the failure of two major US financial institutions this week.

After weeks of negative campaigning and mud-slinging, John McCain made a stunning admission this week. During a presidential forum Sept. 11th, McCain said, "It's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have."

Former ultra-conservative Mexican President Vincente Fox took a swipe at Michigan workers this week while appearing to endorse John McCain.

The six trade union federations are organizing a joint day of action against the planned privatization of the postal service.

As is widely understood, though, economic hardship in Michigan has been driven primarily by so-called free trade policies pushed by the Bush administration and John McCain. But John McCain has also used his vote in the Senate to help companies profit at the expense of taxpayers and working people who need jobs.

As moderate elements of the Republican Party melt away from supporting the Bush legacy and John McCain, more and more of the hardcore and extremist forces and voices in the Republican Party have eagerly stepped forward.