Labor

The lead organizer of a union drive with the predominantly African American workforce at a Mississippi factory is building power through alliances with civil rights, faith, and student activists.

Trump says he'll spike bad trade deals, but he's still letting the big corporations that write them make the rules. Candidate Donald Trump promised to renegotiate free trade agreements that...

At a Capitol Hill forum, Roberto Ramirez shared his experience as a long-time employee of fast food king Andrew Puzder, Trump's choice to head the U.S. Department of Labor.

Through our weekly feature, we've been honored to lift up dozens of inspiring leaders in the fight for a more equitable country and world. 

Workers in Massachusetts are agitating for a $15 statewide minimum wage, buoyed by ballot-box successes in other states and widespread in-state worker support.

New play from veteran labor leader Gene Bruskin, an exciting tale of solidarity and worker uprising. Fiction has the capacity to transport us from the drudgery of everyday life to...

Large retailers and restaurants are increasingly assigning their employees, predominantly women and people of color, unpredictable schedules. Workers like Kimberly Mitchell are fighting back. [caption id="attachment_12586" align="alignright" width="209"] Make-up artist...

The right wing that conspired openly against an elected president’s mandate insists on a wild capitalism and does not accept that black, poor, and indigenous people, women, homosexuals, and slum...

A Mexican fair trade activist offers lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement about the likely impacts of the Trans-Pacific deal on inequality.  After the November election, all eyes...