The Wisconsin AFL-CIO announced its opposition to the proposed constitutional ban on civil unions and marriage. The Wisconsin Legislature recently approved the measure and placed it on the November statewide ballot.

Thanks to the campaign by Michigan’s unions and community allies, the state’s low-wage workers will be better able to support themselves and their families.

The WorkChoices Act and the accompanying 400 plus pages of regulations criminalise legitimate trade union activity. They criminalise workers, union officials and trade unions for merely taking industrial action to defend their interests.

As the light of day exposes their ugly corruption and decay, the Bush far-right cabal is moving even more strenuously and quietly to establish the structures that can be used to carry on their corporate agenda no matter who wins the election.

I think the big advantage we have now in scholarship on race in the last several decades is that we get to start from the fact that it’s a biological fiction.

"The Bush administration continued to demonstrate its strong bias against workers' rights in 2005," states a report put out earlier this month by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Why did a recent opinion poll show that a large majority believes that "Wal-Mart is bad for America"?

Since the mid-1990s, living wage supporters have campaigned for local laws requiring firms to pay their employees wages above the minimum wage when they do government business or receive public subsidies.

If unionizing a Mexican factory seems like a victory, what about this one? Workers at a factory in El Salvador own a majority stake in the factory and work with no managers.

Over 1,000 fast food workers and their supporters filled the Auckland Town Hall on February 12, to give added impetus to the SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign and to other low paid workers campaigns.

Hotel workers announce the kickoff of a national campaign to negotiate new contracts with the largest hotel chains in cities throughout the US in 2006.

Who is Richard Berman, and why does he hate labor unions so much?

In the last month 16 coal miners have died in West Virginia.

The battle began last June when a young woman came to Parkdale Community Legal Services claiming that $8000 of her wages went unpaid.

To pay for the increase in military spending, Bush has proposed potentially devastating cuts in funding to already under-funded social services.

The two deaths bring to 18 the total number of coal miners killed in the nation since the first of the year. A Jan. 3 explosion killed 12 miners and two others died in a Jan. 20 underground fire.

The Democrats are fighting among themselves whether to sustain a filibuster against the Alito nomination, which all progressive forces in the U.S. should demand that they carry forward in the most militant way. Progressives also should make clear that a filibuster must be carried forward.

More than 1,500 workers of Toyoto Kirloskar Motor Corporation are on warpath against the dismissal of three of their colleagues in voilation of Section 33(1)(b) of Industrial Disputes Act (IDA). The employees were dismissed after so-called independent enquiry instituted by the management.

In a speech delivered last week to the National Press Club, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney laid out a comprehensive economic reform program. Sweeney denounced the "perfect storm of outsourcing, off-shoring, tax evasion, layoffs, work speedups, wage cuts, health care cuts, pension cuts, shifting risks, bashing unions and short-changing communities" that are the hallmarks of the Bush administration’s economic policy and right-wing political philosophy.

December’s three-day strike by the 33,700 members of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 was a victory for the workers as they turned back significant pension cuts for future employees. And that victory comes at a time when corporations and state governments are freezing and eliminating pension plans for tens of thousands of workers.