unions
Crisis in Honduras: labor takes hold
August 30, 2010The labor movement, responding to murders of peasant activists and to precarious living conditions, is leading popular mobilization in Honduras.
Read moreRetirement home residents rally for workers
August 30, 2010Their hair is gray, some use walkers or canes, but that didn't stop them from rallying to support 38 workers "replaced" during a contract dispute.
Read morePalin is new Joe McCarthy, says AFL-CIO Trumka
August 27, 2010AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Sarah Palin's radical right rhetoric is "poisonous, dangerous and strikes of McCarthyism."
Read moreMexican Johnson Controls workers attacked, U.S. unions respond
August 25, 2010U.S. and international unions stand with Mexican workers at Johnson Controls plant in Puebla, Mexico.
Read moreDisney worker rejects employer’s substitute hijab
August 23, 2010ANAHEIM, Calif. - Is Disney policy part of the Islamophobia being trumpeted by the ultra-right?
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