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Weeks after the Labor Notes conference the energy is still pulsing. As the strain of economic crisis pulls on every city and workplace, the biggest crowd of labor activists we can remember—1,200 of them—came to Detroit looking for answers, eager to make connections, and ready to turn the ship...

While the Bay Area’s Castlewood Country Club hosted a Mother’s Day brunch, its locked-out workers were outside on a three-day hunger strike.

Since December workers from UNITE HERE Local 2850 in Pleasanton, California, have struggled over health care with management. The dispute arose...

Lingerie workers in the Philippines and Thailand knew that they had to take action against cut-and-run bosses when managers at Triumph International announced plant closures and layoffs of more than 2,000 workers last June.

The Filipino union, the New Union of Workers of Triumph, tried...

As the sun rose on April 21, hundreds of students approached the main gate to the University of Puerto Rico’s historic Río Piedras campus and chained it shut. Thus began an occupation that has now spread to all 11 campuses of the UPR system and has become the longest-lasting strike action of...

Locked-out miners in Boron, California, voted by 279 to 95 to end their 107-day lockout. The Longshore and Warehouse Union says the pact beats back most demands made by Rio Tinto, the world’s fourth-largest mining company.