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In just a few short weeks, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their allies will travel from Immokalee, FL – home of one of the largest farmworker communities in the country – to Chicago, IL, home of the world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s. The "2007 Truth Tour: Behind the Golden Arches” will culminate in two national days of action on April 13th and 14th in the Chicago area marking a new phase in the Campaign for Fair Food. Now is the time to finalize plans...

In the recent election for union leadership, members of the Teamsters union were confronted with a choice. On the one side stood Jimmy Hoffa Jr., the incumbent president, who campaigned on the basis of forming a “partnership” with the employers and whose family has had long-standing relations with organized crime. On the other side stood the challenger, Tom Leedham, who has pressed for mobilizing the membership to act in their own interests and strike, if that proves necessary, in order to wi...

With threats of further job cuts continuing, the United Auto Workers union is preparing to implement a series of unprecedented attacks on workers on behalf of US auto manufacturers....

The destruction of 13,000 Chrysler jobs in the US and Canada and threatened sell-off of the 82-year-old auto company is the latest in a series of attacks on the jobs and living standards of autoworkers in the US and internationally....

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) held a press conference in Washington DC Monday to release a report documenting the brutal exploitation and abuse of foreign temporary workers under so-called “guestworker” programs run by the US Department of Labor....

President Bush traveled to Guatemala on Monday and said free trade can spread opportunity, provide jobs, and help lift people out of poverty. But according to a new report, there is a food processing plant less than 10 miles from where Bush spoke where children as young as 13 years old are working under deplorable conditions. We speak with veteran anti-sweatshop activist Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee about the report....

Article examines the false Republican arguments against the Employee Free Choice Act. It examines the problems with the current system that tilt the playing field toward companies and against workers seeking unionization....

20,000 French Airbus workers staged a half-day strike on Tuesday March 6 to protest the “Power 8” austerity plan, which demands the destruction of 10,000 jobs—11.5 percent of the total workforce—in the company’s European plants. The protesters took part in morning demonstrations in the main production centres in France, and were supported by the local communities, which depend on these factories for their livelihoods. Between 85 and 90 percent of the workforce was on strike....

Thirty-five years ago this month, workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio left their positions on the shop floor. The reason for the wildcat strike was the institution by the company of new disciplinary rules and a general speed-up of the manufacturing process. This action by the workers not only ticked off management, it also upset the union bureaucrats, who had promised cooperation from its members regarding the new rules. It wasn't only the new rules that caused the rebellio...

At the end of last year most of us received a letter from the UFCW Pension Trust Fund summarizing the status of the Pension assets upon which our retirement income depends....