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Teamster bus attendants in NY have a contract that pays new hires less than minimum wage. Through group grievances, leafleting, and legal action, they’re demanding their rights from the boss—and the union.

Threatened with pay cuts, tax increases, and a higher retirement age, unions in Portugal called a 24-hour general strike. Two transit workers from New York were there to see the shutdown.

President Obama's trade deal with Korea looks like a cut and paste of the same corporate-friendly script he inherited. But this agreement comes with the blessing of the UAW's Bob King. Will other unions rebel?

Last month United Electrical Workers Local 204 in Taunton, Massachusetts, called for mass picketing and blockading of entrances to a shuttered factory to stop the auction of its machines. In response, the company has postponed the auction, in a temporary victory for the union and the city,...

Nearly 4,000 graduate students in the 10-campus University of California system voted to approve a three-year contract with the university last week. This landmark turnout was due primarily to a campaign organized by dozens of rank-and-file members across the state urging their co-workers to...

Worker centers and health and safety advocates joined forces on the national level for the first time last month. The Denver gathering brought together worker centers from the Interfaith Worker Justice national network and local coalitions for occupational safety and health (COSHs).