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Thousands of striking hotel workers take over Chicago’s Magnificent Mile

September 14, 2018 By Roberta Wood

Workers are determined that the hotel owners and those guests who crossed picket lines will get no peace, and certainly very little sleep.

Sanders and Warren take aim at abuses by U.S. corporations

September 7, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Walmart and Amazon, worth at least $1 billion, pay workers starvation wages, in Sanders’ words, and count on taxpayers to pick up the tab.

How “right to work” went down on the ground in Missouri

August 9, 2018 By Al Neal

Tuesday would mark the end of a yearlong, hard-fought effort by labor, students, community allies, and activists to keep Missouri a proud union state.

Unions launch mass mobilization against Kavanaugh’s nomination to SCOTUS

August 3, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Their objective: To convince enough key senators to turn against the judge, whom Trump picked from a list of jurists submitted by two right-wing groups.

Court gives low-paid Alabama workers a win for higher pay

August 2, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“The federal appeals court’s decision today affirmed state lawmakers discriminated against the city’s predominantly black workforce in stealing away their minimum wage increase."