The United States refuses to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and took negative attitude to the economic, social and cultural rights of the laborers.

The situation of American women and children was disturbing. The rates of women and children physically or sexually victimized were high.

A far-right organization bristling from the union's campaign against privatization has attacked the AFL-CIO in a recent press statement.

Not only does Bush’s 2006 budget punish veterans, the poor, retirees, and other working people for not being rich, it is a blatant power grab.

It’s no secret that today, a powerful debate rages in the labor movement. For most union members and supporters, there is probably more confusion than clarity.

A bilateral meeting of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) took place in Johannesburg yesterday (22 March).

Arkansas' Department of Human Services released damning figures yesterday stating that the retail giant leads the list of top 10 employers whose workers are receiving state welfare.

Economic insecurity is driving older Americans back into the labor market. At the same time, employment opportunities for other workers are souring, the regular pattern of a market economy.

The Senate failed to boost the federal minimum wage, meaning the 2.5 million workers who make the $5.15 hourly federal minimum wage will not have seen a wage increase since 1997.

Gelmart Industries, Inc., which is headquartered in New York City and owns Gelmart Industries Philippines, is a company that specializes in manufacturing and distribution of intimate apparel.

Good jobs, affordable health care coverage and secure retirements are the top priorities among Latino workers, Latino leaders said.

GOP President George W. Bush's partial Social Security privatization plan makes retirement less secure while opening retireees' payments to hazards of "Enronization."

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released new data on union membership for 2004, documenting the ongoing decline in private sector unionization.

The million-member union, which is combating the notoriously low-paying anti-union million-worker retailer, just organized a second Wal-Mart in Quebec, at Ste. Hyacinthe, and is poised to win even more in British Columbia.

When the president talks to America about something as serious as working families' retirement security, we need to hear sound facts and straight talk.

Wal-Mart has received the questionable distinction of making the list of the ten worst corporations of 2004.

U.S. meat and poultry companies often use illegal tactics to quash workers’ efforts to gain a union voice on the job to improve unsafe working conditions that lead to injury and death.

I read in my daily paper about overcapacity in the airline industry. There are more airline seats than buyers. Mr. Supply outstrips Mr. Demand.

Bush and his corporate friends are deliberately undermining support for the system and pushing for privatized individual investment accounts. This is dangerous, so let's stop them.

As the nation's largest private employer, Wal-Mart sets the standard for wages, benefits and prices wherever it goes, and it has gone nearly everywhere.