labor

Today's right-to-work movement can trace its origins to the Jim Crow and Red Scare South.

Demonstrators are expected to protest Walmart's treatment of its workers outside its Bentonville, Ark., headquarters Wednesday, Oct. 10, bringing home a message that has been getting louder and louder across the nation and beyond.

In brainstorming sessions held by labor advocates across the state, North Carolinians have come up with a list of recommendations for developing a future Workers' Bill of Rights.

You'd think that people who were devastated by hurricanes and failed levees, whose homes and businesses were built back in large part thanks to immigrant labor, would support rules to protect these workers -- but that's not been the case.

Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay.

Workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, N.C. tell the story of how African American, white, and Mexican immigrant workers were able to find common ground despite the company’s attempts to use racial division and immigration enforcement to defeat them.

The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor.

In the final months of his life, Dr. King launched a Poor People's Campaign for economic justice with a familiar strategy: Occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

An undocumented farmworker leader was deported last week, reinforcing the findings of a new Farm Labor Organizing Committee report that says tobacco pickers struggling to organize are stymied by fear.

A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero.