A win for the United Auto Workers at Volkswagen looks likely this week, as 1,550 workers vote on union representation Wednesday through Friday
Rhode Island Hospital worker Nick Williams was so angry that his new supervisor was his union business agent’s brother that he came…
The United Auto Workers, so long frustrated in their attempts to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., may have found a…
If there was a bright side to the government shutdown, it’s that Congress has delayed taking up a little-publicized bill that would…
Detroit hit the Trifecta yesterday—the third in a series of body blows that politicians have landed on the city’s working people. The…
Many people know NAFTA has cost U.S. workers 700,000 jobs. But how many know another effect was to drive Mexican small farmers…
“Want to know what all the fuss is? “We are standing up for justice!” At a busy intersection dotted with fast food…
They inspired the country when they sat down inside their Chicago factory in December 2008, and now they’ll have the chance to…
Since 2006, May Day in the United States has come to mean immigrants’ rights. That was the year millions of people marched…
Part 2 of a two-part series on the TRADOC workers' cooperative in Mexico. Part 1 is here. A tire is not just…
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