Labor

Workers fight back vs. wage theft

November 23, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

SAN FRANCISCO - "Wage theft" may not yet be a household word, but it's a constant, dismal reality for millions across the U.S.

San Francisco hotel workers on strike

November 23, 2009 By David Bacon

About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of the city's oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18.

Justice bus rolls to stop wage theft

November 21, 2009 By James Thompson

HOUSTON — The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center assembled a group of 30 labor activists to ride the Justice Bus here to bring attention to wage theft.

‘Health care or food?’

November 21, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."

U.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers

November 19, 2009

In a big victory for a U.S. student campaign, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel, agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down after its workers formed a union.