Gross would rather talk about worker solidarity than lattes and soy milk these days. A volunteer organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Gross claims his involvement with the union got him fired from a New York City Starbucks a year ago.

Bailey's murder has shocked the San Francisco Bay Area. It has also rippled out into the rest of America as the country comes to grips with the daylight murder of a senior newspaper editor. There is little doubt that Bailey was executed. It was the kind o

A cart plunged about 30 feet down an elevator shaft at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday, injuring two food service workers.

The private sewer contractors that employed two workers killed last week in a storm surge in St. Paul has established a fund for their families.

Garbage workers in Alameda County overwhelmingly approved a new contract with Waste Management Inc. on Saturday morning, ending a 26-day lockout that left many neighborhoods with overflowing piles of trash in their streets.

As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labour in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said on Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.

once-secret power struggle between one of the Western United States' most powerful labor leaders, and America's most famous union boss, has broken out into the open. United Healthcare Workers West leader Sal Roselli has sent letters to union members denou

The National Rural Letter Carriers Association and the U.S. Postal Service have hit an impasse on a new labor contract and will enter a dispute resolution process expected to include arbitration.

Labor experts nationwide say an ongoing drywallers strike in Oregon and southwest Washington looms as the sharpest example yet of this decade's divisions within the U.S. labor movement spilling out onto a picket line. This week's quarrels -- with union

More than 500 painters and drywallers for many of Madison's biggest construction projects have been on strike since Friday. After successfully shutting down construction sites at the massive Epic Systems campus in Verona and St. Mary's Hospital expansion

UNPAID workers contracted to build a high-profile Tube station project downed tools on Thursday after their controversial PFI employer’s wage cheques were rejected by their banks.

LISBON: Many Portuguese workers stayed home on Wednesday in what unions hoped would be the first general strike against measures by the Socialist government to reduce the budget deficit by cutting workers’ benefits.

Hundreds of police in a Mexican city near the U.S. border refused to work for a second day on Tuesday, demanding more pay and protection from increased attacks by drug hitmen.

Plan Would Deny Legally Mandated Pay Increase, Stiff Military Servicemen and Women Serving in Combat in Most Dangerous Part of the World...

With Detroit automakers losing billions and their market share in a slump, this summer’s contract talks with the United Auto Workers promised to be more contentious than ever.

Gas prices are taking a bigger bite out of paychecks than most think they should. But for some here in Mid Michigan, gas is taking more than a bite. It's taking the whole check.