Labor

Detroit fights for access to fresh food

September 27, 2009 By John Rummel

DETROIT — 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.

Wells Fargo guilty of crimes against workers, rally charges

September 27, 2009

CHICAGO – Hundreds of labor, faith based and community leaders rallied here in front the downtown corporate offices of Wells Fargo Sept. 24 calling the bank guilty of criminal actions aimed at working people.

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20

September 27, 2009 By John Wojcik

Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without...

Machinists file lawsuit to save jobs

September 26, 2009 By Joelle Fishman

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Workers, elected officials and the entire labor movement are rallying to the aid of International Association of Machinists District 26 in their effort to save 1,050 jobs at two profitable Pratt & Whitney...

Hotel workers stage sit-in at Hyatt

September 26, 2009 By John Wojcik

In one of the largest civil disobedience actions in recent history, some 200 Chicago and Indiana hospitality workers and supporters sent a message to hotel giants: We Are Not Afraid!