Labor

Our Walmart wins some victories for pregnant workers

April 10, 2014 By Mike Hall

It wasn't good luck that brought about workplace changes at Walmart. It was the hard work and the mobilization of workers and community supporters across the nation in Our Walmart.

Rallies demand equal pay

April 10, 2014 By Beatrice Lumpkin

How unequal are women's wages? Women in the U.S., on average, are now paid only 77 cents to every $1.00 of men's average pay.

Nurses and lawmakers resume push for financial transactions tax

April 9, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

National Nurses United and the Congressional Progressive Caucus relaunched their drive for a financial transactions tax.

Hartford fast-food workers protest wage theft

April 8, 2014 By Taylor Leake

Fast-food workers and community and faith leaders protested systemic wage theft in the industry, just after the first-ever national poll of fast-food workers showed companies lare stealing money from 89 percent of their employees.

Colombian union leaders say killings continue

April 8, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Three years after it was added as a side pact to the controversial U.S.-Colombia "free trade" pact, the Labor Action Plan designed to improve workers' lot and their rights is a failure.