A report on the looming showdown pitting the Chicago Teachers Union against City Hall–and how the teachers’ fight is tied to a wider struggle for justice

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist

This is not a protest movement about the actions of a racist gunman, but the renewal of the long struggle for racial justice and equality

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist

A look at labor’s crisis ahead of this year’s Labor Notes conference

IF LOSING Indiana to "right-to-work" forces was a disaster for organized labor, the defeat for unions in Michigan was a catastrophe. Yet…

An estimated 100,000 people filled Cairo's Tahrir Square November 27 to protest a decree by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that concentrates political power…

CAN THE scrappy band of outsiders that now heads the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) lead the kind of high-stakes fight that most…

BIG STRIKE authorization votes by unions in tough contract battles aren't unusual. But the recent 90 percent vote by members of the…

A FRENCH presidential election that was expected to give a boost to far-right Marine Le Pen of the National Front has instead…