Dust that causes nosebleeds and vomiting, driving forklifts in the dark, blocked emergency exits: these are just some of the conditions found in a California warehouse.
While cutting back aid to local governments, Pennsylvania Governor Corbett has lavished long-term tax breaks for hugely profitable firms like Royal Dutch Shell Oil.
One sweatshop steel company endangered workers, stiffed creditors, got government contracts--and when caught, simply wiped its slate clean with bankruptcy.
The issue here is not that Democrats offer no alternative to capitalism. But they offer no challenge to it in its most rapacious, exploitative incarnation of recent times.
Apple’s power over China’s workforce extends to many other suppliers. A new report drills down to the lesser-known plants that piece together our hand-held devices.
We have to view our work—organizing work—as a means of resisting corporate control, with the belief that at some point a critical mass will exist and we’ll topple it.
The utility company has locked out 8,500 workers, leaving a skeleton staff of untrained managers to run the city's power grid during a searing heat wave.
Working long hours amid noxious fumes, salon workers are in constant contact with chemicals linked to various illnesses and reproductive health problems.
In a collaboration that lasted 9 months, Occupy Wall Street worked with locked-out art handlers at auction house Sotheby's to win a new contract--which they won on May 31.
In this excerpt from the new book "Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America," Michelle Chen looks at young workers from Egypt to Wisconsin.
In Oregon, activists are rejuvenating a campaign to win a health care system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.
A dramatic and bitter labor conflict has played out in Muscatine, Iowa in recent years, though without the prominence or massive community support of a century ago.
New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
