unions
Join LA “listening session”: Working people must be heard!
August 20, 2013The AFL-CIO, in advance of its September convention, has issued a call for "listening sessions," a way for working people and allies to come together and add their creative ideas and strategies.
Read moreUnion flags fly along the Maine coast
August 20, 2013There are some 6,000-plus lobster boat workers in Maine that best fit Victor Hugo's general description of them more than a century ago - toilers of the sea.
Read moreToday in labor history: IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” published
August 19, 2013The book included famous pro-worker songs like "The Internationale" and "Solidarity Forever."
Read moreEgyptian unions in throes of democracy fight
August 16, 2013The Egyptian army arrested and temporarily detained two Egyptian steel union leaders in Suez, Egypt, two days before its violent crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, seven Egyptian unions and a human rights...
Read moreWriters Guild to PBS: Air film on Koch brothers
August 16, 2013The Writers Guild of America-East is demanding that a Public Broadcasting System flagship station, WNET 13 in New York, air the documentary about the far-right oil tycoons, the Koch brothers.
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