Solidarity

Striking federal contract workers demand “$15 and a union”

July 28, 2015 By Larry Rubin

All are employed by huge corporations that have been awarded contracts by the federal government, and all earn poverty wages.

Today in labor history: Ode to a labor troubadour, Woody Guthrie

July 14, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

He wasn't afraid to tackle the problems that workers and unionists faced, while bucking up their spirits, by singing about the people, you and me.

Right-wing GOP Illinois Gov. Rauner plans to force state workers to strike

June 25, 2015 By PAI

Rauner's tactic is the latest in a nationwide campaign by the right, its business backers and its political puppets to trash workers, cut wages, destroy pensions and kill unions.

Chicagoans rally for an end to racist violence

June 24, 2015 By Patrick J. Foote

After reading the names and short biographies of the slain, the mournful airs gave way to determination as the emcees brought forth speakers from the crowd.

In Charleston, a city comes together in wake of racist killings

June 23, 2015 By Jon Queally

Twenty thousand people came together on a bridge in Charleston, marching in the name of love and unity against racist violence that took the lives of nine people in a historic black church. .