Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest

Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than it’s ever been before. Immigrants have always made up most of the country’s farm workers in the West and Southwest. Today, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, about 57 percent of the country’s entire agricultural workforce is undocumented. But the list of other industries dependent on immigrant labor is long—meatpacking, some construction trades, building services, healthcare, restaurant and retail service, and more

“We have to go back to the social teachings our movement is based on—to the idea of justice”

Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states

Months of strikes and organizing in Washington led to the first U.S. farmworker union in years

Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers

ARVIN, CA – Two farm workers pull weeds in a field of organic potatoes. By mid-afternoon the temperature is over 100 degrees.…

A striking teacher from Michoacán demonstrates in Mexico City in front of a line of police. Canadian and US teachers have organized…

Lao Dong belongs to the official union federation, but it maintains an independent critical voice

Lead in Flint water, mold in Detroit schools