Labor
Unite-Here says: Sí se puede, yes we can!
September 30, 2009Video: About 200 hospitality workers and supports arrested in Chicago civil disobedience. Park Hyatt Chicago, Sept. 24, 2009.
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Resurrection Health Care workers vow: ‘We’ll win our union’
September 29, 2009Solidarity is the word on the picketline as over 8,000 Chicago hospital workers fight to organize a union.
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New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone
September 29, 2009The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.
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Labor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers
September 27, 2009PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that...
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Detroit fights for access to fresh food
September 27, 2009DETROIT — This is a city in crisis whose residents get hit from many angles. The city’s unemployment rate (officially near 30 percent) alone would spell catastrophe for any population.
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