Labor

Walmart employees are striking and protesting for the first time under an organized effort, and have called for a nationwide protest and walk-out this coming Black Friday.

The broader public is likely unaware of the unfair and even damaging teaching conditions adjunct or part-time professors are increasingly facing.

With the US presidential election in sight, the outsourcing of American jobs overseas has become one of the hottest campaign issues. Both leading candidates are calling on corporate America to bring jobs back to US shores even though the outlook for more jobs to go overseas is as bleak as ever.

In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants, were executed for a pair of murders connected with a payroll heist a few years earlier.

One penny more! This has been the simple demand of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an organization which for almost 20 years has been fighting for dignity and justice for migrant farmworkers in the tomato fields of South Florida.

Approximately 2,000 people gathered in Montpelier, Vermont on May 1st for the Put People and the Planet First march and rally. The event took place alongside parallel gatherings held throughout the world to mark International Workers' Day. Here are some photos from the day's events.