Nabor Marcelino, a Nahuatl, and Heriberto Ramirez, a Purepecha, work in Santa Paula, in a crew of limoneros, or lemon pickers.  Ervino Mateo, another Purepecha, shows his hands, gloves and clippers.

U.S. employers have quietly been raking in extraordinarily high profits for the past two years while holding wages down and shifting more benefit costs onto workers. Real wages will decline further as economic growth slows in the United States and worldwide over the next year.

The Bush National Labor Relations Board is easily the most anti-worker labor board in history and has lost few opportunities to turn back the clock on workers' rights, but even against this sorry backdrop, the scope of what they now are contemplating is breathtaking.

To use a US baseball methaphor, the French right-wing government has three strikes against it. First, the “no” vote rejecting the European Constitution in May 2005; second, the uprising in the working-class public housing projects from October to November 2005, and now a third moment: the mobilization against youth job insecurity.

Michigan voters can’t trust Dick DeVos. He says one thing – about jobs, Michigan schools, and ethics – but his record says another.

I went to a tribute to my late friend, Wells Keddie, at the Labor Education Center of Rutgers University on Monday. Wells died recently after a lifetime of struggle in the labor movement and as a labor educator.

In his remarks to the 34th convention of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Las Vegas, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger described the union as "facing tough, complex challenges in every sector of our union."

Past and present immigration have many things in common. Both are largely the result of severe economic dislocations effecting regions following under the sway of industrial capitalism.

“May Day” is an international signal of distress. When millions marched in the streets of cities across the United States, and hundreds of thousands protested throughout Mexico on May 1, International Workers' Day, they sent out an urgent message to end a system of global competition based on eroding labor rights.

During the past 150 years employers have never let up in their single aim of exploiting workers to the utmost to maximise profits and accumulate more capital to be able to exploit more workers and make even larger profits. There is no end to their greed.

WE HAVEN'T seen anything as odious and hateful as the Sensenbrenner legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1857. People should look it up--another law that asked citizens to participate in the persecution of others and the returning of escaped slaves to their former masters.

Within the labor movement “salting” refers to the strategy by which union organizers seek employment at a non union workplace with the aim of uncovering unfair and unlawful labor practices, gaining intelligence on the inner workings, garnering support for the labor union and ultimately organizing the workplace.

It may at first seem odd to call a proposal for a living wage standard "revolutionary", because I haven't heard the students at UVA say one word about any private company picking up responsibility for people who can't work. 

Many farm workers in the Coachella Valley live in house trailers in labor camps, like Concepcion Lopez and her son Jaime Sebastian. The owner of the camp where she has her trailer has failed to provide electricity and basic services.

The University of Michigan, New York University and several other institutions in the U.S., Canada and Europe have recently severed relationships with The Coca-Cola Company because Coca-Cola would not agree to an independent third party investigation of allegations of human rights, labor and environmental abuses by its bottlers in Colombia and India.

Cola-Cola claims to be committed to ‘protecting and preserving the environment’. However, in India Coca-Cola has been accused of creating severe water shortages, polluting the soil and groundwater, distributing toxic waste as fertilizer to farmers and selling sub-standard drinks...

Unionists and their allies expected to lead mass protests in more than 65 cities nationwide for immigrants’ rights – including more than 100,000 jamming the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol – on April 10.

Hundreds of thousands of people have gone into the street around the country, protesting the anti-immigrant bills in Congress. Labor must be deeply involved in these demonstrations, and in the effort to protect the rights of immigrant workers.

The Delphi corporation, a major auto parts supplier to General Motors, has proposed to a Federal Bankruptcy Court that it "rewrite" existing labor contracts to sharply reduce wage rates and benefits presently in effect.

Delphi’s misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce health care, retirement and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.