workers rights

Tentative pacts avert Metropolitan Opera lockout scheme

August 21, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The tentative agreement includes mandatory cost reductions from management and an independent monitor to track budget performance.

Trumka: Workers “confused, angry, frustrated, scared”

August 20, 2014 By PAI

But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass.

Labor joins community at Ferguson march

August 20, 2014 By Nicholas James

As the mile-long column marched down the main street of Florissant, whole families poured from their doors and joined the procession: the peoples' struggle is the workers' struggle.

NLRB official: Mercedes breaks labor law at Alabama auto plant

August 8, 2014 By PAI

The UAW effort in Alabama is part of the union's new focus on organizing autoworkers at foreign "transplant" plants in the South.

British MPs cry when they tour North Carolina tobacco farm

August 8, 2014 By Mike Hall

Two members of the British Parliament got a first hand look at the deplorable working conditions that thousands of tobacco workers in North Carolina endure.