workers rights
Unity was their cry: Fast food workers go global
May 20, 2014Tattooed teenagers joined with their sign-carrying elders as part of the global fast food workers' strike. Like an idea whose time has come, there was no holding back this group.
Read moreAmerica’s top hospital gets failing grade in treatment of its workers
May 16, 2014Hospital workers were on the march in the pouring rain earlier this month at John Hopkins Hospital saying: "America's Number One Hospital - Keeping Workers in Poverty."
Read moreFast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities and 36 countries
May 16, 2014"It feels good to be a part of history. It's been a year that fast-food workers first went on strike for $15 and a union and now our movement has spread all over the world."
Read moreTrumka: Minimum wage opponents ‘delusional’ if they think they’ve won
May 2, 2014AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka condemned the continued right-wing obstruction preventing millions of working families from getting a much-needed boost in income.
Read moreToday in labor history: Nazis destroy unions
May 2, 2014On May 2, 1933, Adolf Hitler's storm troopers occupied all trade union headquarters across Germany, and union leaders were arrested and put in prison or concentration camps.
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