Women workers are attacking low pay and bias from many angles, assailing wage laws that exclude them, suing over outright discrimination, and trying to organize unions. And they’ve been confronting the disrespect that accompanies smaller paychecks.

A California teachers union struck a deal with Governor Jerry Brown that would combine a millionaires tax with a sales tax boost. Union activists split on the move, saying it contains key flaws, but shows how the debate on taxes has shifted.

Workers in the nation’s sprawling distribution network hold enormous potential power. Today warehouse workers are organizing in three hubs: the “Inland Empire” east of LA, a giant complex near Chicago, and the centers along the Jersey Turnpike.

If the war against unions has reached a tipping point, Wilma Smith is among those determined to rebalance the scales.

The 58-year-old assembler at the General Electric plant in West Burlington, Iowa, was called back to work in September.

New York City teachers decried the release of test-based evaluations they say seek to discredit them and get rid of as many as possible. The flawed data wouldn't have been gathered, some noted, without their union's initial approval.

Just a few days shy of the six-month anniversary of last August’s bitter Verizon strike, bosses in New Jersey celebrated by announcing the layoff of 336 technicians.

The mass firing will leave only 20 Verizon Connected Solutions techs in the entire state, and will begin April 3. The layoffs pour fuel on the contract fight that continues for the 45,000 Verizon union workers on the East Coast.

As Florida's tomato pickers turn their attention to grocery chains, they're training farmworkers to form committees and stand up for themselves on the job—and reporting notable success.

In the face of huge cuts planned for the Postal Service, dozens of facilities threatened with closure have won a reprieve. That's giving hope to Vermont postal workers and supporters fighting to save the mail and good union jobs.

Lockouts seem to be everywhere. At Cooper Tire in Ohio, sugar beet plants in North Dakota, the New York City Opera, the National Football League, and Caterpillar’s locomotive plant in Ontario, management is using the tactic to try to force outrageous concessions.