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This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, a heroic effort to end racial segregation in the South. What lessons can today’s movements learn from the Freedom Riders' courage, daring tactics, and rejection of business as usual?

Noisy pickets by the NYSNA nurses union responded to $5 billion in Medicaid cuts by New York legislators, which hospitals are trying to pass on to nurses. In the Bronx, nurses say Montefiore hospital looks to save by understaffing.

“Excluded workers” called on the AFL-CIO to let them in—and got the beginnings of a welcome. At their conference in New York this week, 250 members and organizers from the nine sectors of the Excluded Workers Congress vowed to “expand the human right to organize and collectively bargain.”

Graduate workers across the University of California have voted to transform their union. The Academic Workers for a Democratic Union slate swept all 10 executive board positions and nearly 60 percent of Joint Council positions in United Auto Workers Local 2865. The local is the largest...

Ten percent unemployment. Poverty wages for most of those still working. An epidemic of home foreclosures. This is Lynn, Massachusetts. In response, our Labor Council formed a coalition of union and community groups whose vision is to be the dominant force in regional economic development.

National Nurses United marked National Nurses Week this year with strike threats at six hospitals in five states, winning increased staffing levels in some locations and beating back health care cost hikes in others.

Wisconsin public sector unionists face a sobering situation after weeks of unprecedented activism—for many, no contracts. Yet their mood is proud and angry. They're acutely aware how their struggle has inspired others.