Labor
99% Spring blooming nationwide
April 13, 2012Activists nationwide are ensuring that the 99% Spring is in full bloom.
Read moreRough going for anti-union drives
April 12, 2012The right-wing anti-labor agenda continues, as bills in state capitols countrywide - designed to attack workers rights - still threaten middle and working class families.
Read moreNLRB condemns Hyatt’s Facebook censorship
April 11, 2012The NLRB's regional director in Phoenix has thrown the book - or, rather, the company employee handbook - at Hyatt, arguing that sections of it are illegal.
Read moreChicago wage theft of Polish workers exposed
April 11, 2012Zwirecki was sentenced to 12 months probation and ordered by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Porter to pay $60,804 in restitution and a $10,333 fine.
Read moreShould union organizers get civil rights protections?
April 10, 2012Workers who are trying to unionize should be added to the groups of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws, two authors say. Currently those laws apply to women and minorities. Their idea, in the...
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