worker rights

Judge orders Kellogg’s to take locked out workers back

August 4, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

A federal judge in Memphis, Tenn., has ordered Kellogg's to take back the 226 union workers it locked out from its cereal plant there over nine months ago.

Fast food workers plan civil disobedience as employers “freak out” over NLRB ruling

July 31, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

The "$15 and a union" campaign won an NLRB decision that could dramatically change the organizing landscape in favor of fast food workers.

Protesters tell Apple: Ensure fair treatment for security guards

July 28, 2014 By Henry Millstein

Union and community activists called on the iconic computer and smartphone manufacturer to push for fair treatment of security workers.

GOP pushing Labor Department to go easy on wage theft

July 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

"One key to economic recovery is vigorous enforcement of wage and hour protections, so workers are paid what they earn, and can pump money back into their local economies."

AFL-CIO student interns organize on Tobacco Road

July 17, 2014 By Kenneth Quinnell

AFL-CIO Union Summer interns have joined members of the FLOC in a drive to organize thousands of North Carolina tobacco farm workers.