workers rights – Page 107

Striking workers converge on Red Cross headquarters

March 23, 2012 By Rick Nagin

Northern Ohio Red Cross workers brought their anger and frustration to the agency's National Headquarters in Washington.

State workers’ lobby day important for all workers

March 22, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

The immediate struggle for pay raises and collective bargainingis part of the larger, national context for democracy and progressive change.

UK’s labor leader Bob Crow builds solidarity at the Left Labor Project

March 19, 2012 By Gabe Falsetta

We believe the trade union movement is not just about what wages or what contract you get but about the social side: Decent transportation, affordable housing, a decent welfare state.

AFL-CIO defends women’s access to contraception

March 16, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

In the wake of a GOP-induced controversy over contraceptive rights and health care, the AFL-CIO has stepped forward to defend women's access to contraception, "regardless of where they work."

Foxconn and socialism in China

March 14, 2012 By John Case

How can there be such abuses, and class conflicts, under socialism? Doesn't socialism promise and end to class conflict, and create a classless society?