Labor

Thousands of striking Chicago hotel workers take over Magnificent Mile

September 13, 2018 By Roberta Wood And John Wojcik

Even workers totally unaffected by those layoffs and cuts turned out by the hundreds today to support their fellow workers.

Workers at U.S. Steel vote to authorize strike

September 12, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“Our jobs are worth fighting for thanks to the hard work and determination of those who came before us."

Taking to the streets, Unite Here hotel workers go on strike

September 12, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

Luxury hotel guests cross picket lines and then pass carts of clean towels that have not been delivered to their rooms.

A teacher, a shooting survivor, and Black Caucus chair: Reject Kavanaugh!

September 11, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

"Nearly every decision and dissent he has written is reflective of a jurist who overwhelmingly serves as a partisan activist.”

Miners’ union leader Gómez Urrutia returns to Mexico as a senator

September 10, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

MEXICO CITY -- It’s taken 12 years of exile and strong support all that time from the United Steelworkers, but Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, president of Los Mineros, the independent Mexican union of steel workers, mine workers...