In a coordinated purge, Walmart has lashed out against workers who walked out in early June. Sixty have been fired or disciplined…

After years of downplaying strikes, the union that’s funding fast food organizing is now embracing the tactic. The Service Employees have underwritten…

Will the U.S. join the rest of the world and guarantee workers paid sick leave? A bill in Congress is stuck, but…

Foreign students on cultural exchange visas walked off the job again March 6, this time from three McDonald’s restaurants near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.…

When you think of models on runways and in magazines, do you think of an abused labor force? Strip off the gloss,…

The old argument that unions must choose between jobs and the environment is losing its grip, as climate change becomes more evident…

Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last fall set the labor movement abuzz and gained new respect…

The giddy heights of 2011—the Wisconsin uprising and Occupy Wall Street—yielded this year to a slog of an election season where many crucial…

Plans for Black Friday walkouts at Walmart stores have spread dramatically, in what has been dubbed the first “viral strike.” Organizers suggest…

A familiar cry for the 40-hour week has gone up, but among retail workers the meaning is new. Part-time workers are demanding…