Feed items
NBC’s Richard Engel says the discretion and speed of ISIS militant movement makes it difficult for the U.S. to plan military action in Iraq.
On June 16 when Moral Monday actions reconvene at the state Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., the spotlight will shine on workers’ rights that have been under attack by the extremist North Carolina legislature.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is conducting a “public forum”—a short poll with leading questions about what people think about trade and how it affects their lives.
That Starbucks cup that held your morning skim latte or the Chinet paper plates you’ve got packed up for a picnic this weekend were likely made by workers at one of Huhtamaki’s 21 plants in the United States, where more than 3,500 people work for the global Finnish packaging and paper products corporation.
Exciting things are happening in Texas. The Machinists (IAM) today announced a second important organizing victory, this time for 475 office and clerical personnel employed by L3 at the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) in Corpus Christi. This follows an April organizing win for 450 helicopter mechanics and technicians at the same facility.
The house, teetering precariously over a cliff in Texas, will be reduced to ash so that debris don't end up in the river below.
A freight train derailment near Ramsey, Minnesota, halted all early commuter service into the Twin Cities on the Northstar commuter rail line.
Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says ISIL is not a free standing terrorist entity but a consequence of what is happening in Syria and endangers the whole region.
Dr. Joseph Cohen performed an independent autopsy on Clayton Lockett, whose April 29 execution went so wrong that the White House condemned it.
