Wal-Mart rolled out a slick, nationwide public relations campaign aimed at defusing negative facts that have been reported about the company.

American Apparel is a leading t-shirt and apparel manufacturer that has aggressively promoted itself as a socially responsible company. But are its products really sweatshop free?

A high unemployment trend that began in late 2001 continues to grip the economy.

The AFL-CIO yesterday condemned the murder of Hadi Salih, the international secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), who was shot by assassins who broke into his Baghdad home.

By increasing resources for organizing, expanding organizing strategies, and pushing for political and community support of labor disputes, the AFL-CIO plans for growth in 2005.

Working families of the union movement are deeply disturbed by the horrors of the HIV / AIDS pandemic, and believe that addressing this crisis must be an immediate priority for our nation.

Despite huge obstacles to organizing unions, the Iron Workers union won a recent victory by showing a commitment to helping immigrant workers win justice on the job.

For low wages, poor labor conditions, and for systematically shifting large parts of their costs and expenses to local taxpayers, Wal-Mart wins the Grinch of the Year for 2004.

Hotel workers, nurses, and Lucent Technologies workers all fight for better wages, benefits, and union contracts. Unions are needed to stem the tide of falling wages, as a recent analysis of wgaes shows.

Bush's all out public relations effort to dismantle Social Security is fooling no one. Also, check out other worker news.

America's lowest paid workers obviously need a raise. So why are Bush and the Republicans do everything to block one?

Child labor is a source of big profits for multinational corporations because they have absolute control over a defenseless population.

Employers often threaten or try to intimidate workers who organize unions to protect their rights in the workplace.

Unemployment increase your chance of early death. And US workers are demanding their rights as workers be recognized as human rights.

Bush's anti-worker policies have put the health and safety of miners at risk.

Highly publicized internal debates in the AFL-CIO are in truth the labor movement's opportunity to build strength and unity to defeat the Bush agenda.

Unity and maximizing the strength of labor must be front and center. Debate that leads to splits or structural divisions in the labor movement will only get us killed.

The October jump in the producer price index and the consumer price index signals a new phase in the four-year trends in inflation and real wages. These trends now confirm a downward trend in the living standards for U.S. workers. From October 2003 to October 2004, real average weekly earnings fell by half a percentage point.

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Bush’s success in reducing the value of the minimum wage in each of the past four years has wreaked havoc with the lives of millions of working Americans, but it does not exist as a media story. The minimum wage loses value as the cost of living rises. Were the government to take action to partially correct for this loss in value, the media would cover that story, but would refer to it as "raising the minimum wage."

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Bush's Radical Right agenda could well include: Repeal of the National Labor Relations Act; destruction of workers' rights to sue for damages when they're hurt on the job a.k.a. "tort reform;" baseball-style "arbitration" of labor disputes; more unilateral bans on unions in the name of "national security;" and --last but not least--privatization of public services, thus killing unions where they are now growing.

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