workers rights
Paid sick days the law now in Seattle
September 26, 2011Seattle's mayor signed the historic bill Friday. Every worker in the city, depending upon his or her conditions of employment, is now guaranteed five to nine sick days per year.
Read moreOklahoma labor commissioner calls public workers “feral hogs”
September 22, 2011The ideology expressed by Costello and his ilk is dangerously close to the rhetoric of eugenicists, the pre-Nazi pseudo-scientific movement.
Read more400 union women at confab demand equality and union rights
September 16, 2011Over 400 union women came to the Coalition of Labor Union Women's 16th Biennial Convention in Orlando, September 7-10, to demand equality and to defend union rights. The women came from many different unions to speak...
Read moreMexican labor officials meet with Congress about worker abuses
September 14, 2011Workers in Mexico are facing repression from the Mexican government and corporations, and more and more working people in Mexico are being driven into poverty.
Read moreChicago students protest Sears ties to child labor and rape
September 9, 2011High school students are protesting Sears's purchase of clothing from a factory where a supervisor is an unpunished serial rapist of young females.
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