workers rights

Instead of attacking workers, how about some jobs?

April 27, 2011 By Judy Ancel

"Right to Work" backers say it's about putting people back to work, but if we look at the latest state to enact such a proposal, it just isn't true.

Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?

April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.

Overturning child labor laws: top priority for GOP

April 25, 2011 By Joe Sims

Republican operatives recently opened up a new front: rolling back child labor laws.

May Day in Chicago: Labor to commemorate Haymarket martyrs

April 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

It's just one word in labor history with a lot of associations: Haymarket.

We Are One on May Day

April 22, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

International Worker's Day has come home. Out of the depths of the raging class war against public workers, their unions and all working people, has arisen a call by the labor movement from Wisconsin to Connecticut...