worker rights
NLRB official orders rerun recognition vote at Target store
May 30, 2012Saying Target illegally threatened to close its store if workers won a vote, a judge ordered a rerun election at the 268-worker store.
Read moreSteelworkers remember martyrs, fight for living
May 29, 2012The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement.
Read moreTen dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field
May 25, 2012They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.
Read moreCoalition asks members to lobby for Paycheck Fairness Act
May 24, 2012The drive kicked off when Senate Democrats announced that Senate leaders promised them a vote on the legislation.
Read moreStriking Los Mineros leader describes horrifying conditions
May 18, 2012Our town is where the Mexican Revolution began in 1906, at a time when miners there were virtually enslaved.
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