workers rights

Union membership up slightly, despite attacks

January 31, 2012 By John Wojcik

Membership in unions increased by 49,000 from 2010 to 2011, including 15.000 new members in the 16 to 24-year-old range.

Egypt’s new labor movement comes of age

January 31, 2012 By Ben Moxham

The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions has just announced to Egypt and the world that it has come of age.

Domestic workers and their children march for rights

January 27, 2012 By David Bacon

One Filipina caregiver from the East Bay explained that she sleeps in the same bed as her client: "What I'd like would be a bed where I could sleep by myself," she said.

Workers brave cold to lobby lawmakers on “right-to-work” danger

January 27, 2012 By Steve Share

Members from turning out to Champlin City Hall to learn more about a coming threat: a proposed "right to work" amendment to the Minnesota constitution.

Indiana House passes right to work for less bill

January 26, 2012 By John Wojcik

In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.