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Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, authorities said. Complete Story...
A Boston woman has succeeded at one of the all-time great Thanksgiving Day juggling acts: She cooked the turkey while helping deliver her baby granddaughter.
NBA players' association director Billy Hunter plans another negotiating session soon with commissioner David Stern, and here's something that might come up.
Some employers are pressuring workers not to report illnesses and injuries, just one problem that has led to widespread underreporting of workplace safety issues, according to congressional investigators.
Tens of thousands of South Korean workers rallied Saturday to protest the government's plan to begin implementing contentious labor laws.
The economy is still shedding jobs, but at a much slower pace than at the height of the financial crisis this year, according to government figures released Friday. That bolsters the view that the economy is making a slow but steady recovery from the worst downturn in decades.
A federal court has ruled that Tyson Foods Inc. violated federal labor standards for not paying production line employees for the time it takes them to put on and remove protective and sanitary gear.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith both are slated to participate in the league's latest round of labor negotiations.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether two people can do the work of five when it comes to resolving labor-management disputes in the workplace.
Wal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields.
Matt Gettmann began working in finance at Boeing Co. last year, and it wasn't long before he found himself watching, stunned, as union members prepared for what became an eight-week strike.
The Screen Actors Guild has made permanent the status of interim national executive director David White.
Union workers at Boeing Co.'s Rotorcraft plant near Philadelphia have ratified a new five-year contract with the aircraft maker that will give them raises of 2 percent to 4 percent a year and a lump-sum payment of $3,500 in the first year, the company and the union said Sunday.
Another Obama administration nominee is facing a GOP roadblock over his ties to labor unions.
A woman accused of forcing girls from Africa to work in New Jersey hair braiding salons for no pay was convicted Wednesday of human trafficking and visa fraud in a case her lawyer says highlighted African cultural norms that failed to translate in America.
A sharply divided Senate panel on Wednesday approved New York state's labor commissioner for the No. 3 post at the Labor Department, despite GOP claims that she gave lawmakers inaccurate testimony.
The United Steelworkers union said Saturday that its members at tiremaker Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire LLC ratified new four-year contracts covering 4,500 workers at six tire and rubber product plants.
Prosecutors have brought murder charges against a man suspected of gunning down a union leader at a Toyota car assembly plant in Venezuela, but are saying nothing about a possible motive.
NFL officials and the NFL Players Association can at least agree on one thing: Tuesday's bargaining session went well.
The union representing 15,000 Atlantic City casino hotel workers approved a new contract Monday with four casinos, providing raises for most workers and guaranteeing benefits won't be reduced.
Actor Ken Howard, a proponent of merging two actors unions for better negotiating clout, has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the union said Thursday.
One of the unions that left the AFL-CIO in a bitter dispute that split the labor movement four years ago is coming back to the labor federation.
WHAT: Two unions — Local 54 of UNITE-HERE, representing 15,000 room cleaners, beverage servers and other workers at all 11 Atlantic City casinos, and the United Auto Workers, which represents about 3,000 dealers, technicians and other workers at four casinos — are bargaining with the gambling houses.
The contract between most of Atlantic City's 11 casinos and the workers who keep them clean and stocked with food and drink expired Tuesday, but both sides plan to continue talks.
Shoring up a key part of his political base, President Barack Obama turned to blue-collar crowds Tuesday to rally support for health care overhaul and claim credit for policies that have "stopped our economic free fall."
Health Care Should Be Driven by Mission, Not Money"Modern high tech health care is a right of the residents of most wealthy countries in the world -- except the United States. America is exceptional in this regard. It is also exceptional in being the only wealthy nation where health care is considered to be a business.
How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy"Anyone concerned with democracy should be worried that the seam between Wall Street and the government is almost invisible. At the very least, it raises serious reasons to doubt that the institutions that facilitated the crisis can clean up their mess.
John Pilger slams racism and lying of "Australia's Apartheid" against Indigenous PeopleJohn Pilger: "Australia's apartheid...There is to be no compensation for those thousands of Aborigines wrenched from their families as children, known as the stolen generation.... "intervention"...being consolidated."
More museums facing strike in FranceFrance's major tourist attractions, including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Versailles, could be shut down next week because of a strike over planned job cuts, the General Confederation of Labor union warned on Friday.
Michelle Malkin » The cronies, czars & corruptocrats at Obama's first state dinnerWho went?
Open Source Anti-CapitalismFor decades we've been told that "there is no alternative" to global capitalism—that trust in the market was the only way to bring progress and end poverty, despite the clear absence of an actual end to poverty.
SEIU Fixing the Vote in FresnoA few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma's in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation.
Congress drafted the National Labor Relations Act to articulate and protect the rights of employers and employees Stephen Cabot rights in his COMPLETE GUIDE TO LABOR RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Steelworkers plan worker-owned cooperatives in North AmericaThe United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. have announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing worker-owned cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada.
Why Won't Obama Give You a Job?"But while caution's prevailed in Washington when it comes to bailing out "Main Street," Wall Street's enjoyed a degree of socialism that would make Hugo Chavez blush.
Why Can't Prosecutors Even Come Close to Taking Down Wall Street Thugs?"The bankers at Goldman Sachs, Goldman's CEO pronounced last week, are doing "God's work." God, these days, must truly be working in strange ways. Take what happened a few short years ago, right before the bubble burst on the market for subprime-backed securities."
Weekend Update #33: Bail Out : Republic of Lakotah - Mitakuye Oyasin"Russell Means asks why there has been no massive public outcry in response to the bailout of 2008, which is projected to cost $7 trillion dollars.
Okay, I confess. I'm hungry, and, therefore, thinking about food. All sorts of awesome flavors are teasing my mind right now, like bacon double cheeseburgers, chocolate covered-strawberries, chicken tenders, barbequed, shredded pork sandwiches...... MMmmmmmmm.........
Limbaugh smears women in organized labor: "Chickify the unions ... no good can come of that""Women on pace to become the majority of union workers... no good can come of that... My instincts never fail me.." What about his instincts to eat Oxy's, purchase the Rams, doctor shop, carry pills prescribed to somone else...
Democrats May Use Budget Reconciliation to Push Through Health Care Reform"....politically speaking, the Republicans would like to see Obama and the Democrats fail.
As Foreclosure Nightmares Increase, Will More Homeowners Pay Off Their Bankers in Violence?"The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it."
Thousands of Right-Wingers Rally at Capitol to Hear Lies About Health-Care Reform, Courtesy of Bachmann and GOP Leaders"Days before a health bill is expected to pass the House, Republicans rallied their flock with the help of FOX News, Michele Bachmann and leading conservative groups."
Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekersCompanies across the economy are finding ways to do more with fewer workers, dimming hopes that hiring will take off anytime soon.
Woman Wins Age Discrimination Case Against Country ClubBOSTON -- A woman who was laid off as a sales manager at a Cape Cod country club because she was over 50 years old has been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and compensation, the state said.
The reports out on the dummy box, which sometimes sounds like the town crier on steroids after a night of heavy drinking, are saying that the bill is 2000 pages long.
In America, the love of labor is lost - St. Petersburg TimesDoes anyone care about labor anymore?
Boehner Cooks Up Excuses for a Really Bad Bill "Yesterday, hours after the House Republicans healthcare "reform" plan was released and universally mocked, Rep. Boehner cried foul, insisting that this unauthorized leak was of a draft bill that wasn't finalized and hadn't been seen by members."
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