workers rights
Detroit remembers 50 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
June 11, 2013Why are tens of thousands again prepared to march in Detroit? "We need a better Detroit, better Michigan, better jobs, and better justice, to turn the dream of 1963 into the reality of 2013."
Read moreUnion leaders question proposed U.S.-Europe ‘free trade’ pact
June 4, 2013Union leaders from the U.S. and Europe are questioning the value and safeguards for workers in a proposed "free trade" pact between the world's two largest trading areas.
Read moreTexas clergy and students back Walmart strikers
June 3, 2013We protested low wages, unattainable benefits, and murderous uncertain working hours.
Read moreBeatrice Lumpkin’s extraordinary book about her extraordinary life
May 31, 2013The interweaving of anger, sorrow, humor, and joy makes "Joy in the Struggle" a deeply human book about a woman who has devoted her entire life to the fight for equality, democracy, and peace.
Read moreMississippi Nissan workers go global in fight for justice
May 31, 2013UAW President Bob King, and actor Danny Glover are in Johannesburg where that country's Metalworkers union has come out fighting for the right of 5,000 Mississippi Nissan workers to organize a union.
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