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Labor in Commonwealth countries from the former British empire want to ensure that there is no cliff edge before Brexit becomes a reality.

In Salinas on April 8, over a thousand farm workers and allies filled the streets of its working-class barrio to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The new law increases access to and protects union membership in New York’s public-sector workplaces in anticipation of an adverse ruling in the pending Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.

Pension-fund activism is a dead-end. Organizing and empowering workers is still the only way to revive the labor movement.

Rank-and-file teachers denounced the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) for collaborating with school officials and the media to encourage a back-to-work movement to end the strike.

Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.

The trade union center CUT announced a vigil in front of the prison where Lula is being held. The resistance recognizes that the fight for Lula's freedom is central to the fight for democracy and against the neo-liberal coup taking place in Brazil.

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious regional newspapers, The Chicago Tribune, could soon have a unionized staff. On Wednesday morning, journalists from its newsroom informed management that they are preparing to organize and that they have collected signatures from dozens of colleagues.

The Trump era has sparked some of the most creative thinking in labor in years.

This year's strike wasn’t the first time West Virginia witnessed an organized teachers' rebellion.