U.S. and Canada

Ebola in Texas: For-profit health care system exposed

On the evening of Sept. 25, Thomas Duncan walked into the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.…

October 7, 2014

On the picket line

Nurses stage die-in to demand Ebola readiness in U.S. About 1,000 members of National Nurses United staged a die-in during…

October 4, 2014

PSC members demand raise and contract

The Professional Staff Congress represents 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York, who educate 270,000 students.…

October 4, 2014

Laundry workers celebrate third anniversary

It was a warm and classy – in all senses of the word – event to celebrate the Laundry Workers…

October 4, 2014

Postal workers, supporters protest cuts

Members of the New York Metro and Mid-Hudson areas of the American Postal Workers Union, the National Postal Mail Handlers…

October 3, 2014

Capitalism, greed and DNA

When some 5,000 people — mainly CEOs and other executives — gather at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for…

October 3, 2014

Durham, N.C.: ‘Black lives matter’

A diverse audience participated in a film screening and discussion entitled “From Ferguson to Durham: Black Lives Matter” at the…

October 2, 2014

Milwaukee community protests killer cops

Milwaukee -- A crowd of labor, community and student supporters of the Dontre Hamilton family and other victims of police…

October 2, 2014

Milwaukee community protests police brutality

Members from a broad array of labor, community and student organizations participated in a “Black and Brown Lives Matter” protest…

October 2, 2014

Ebola crisis requires global response

Sept. 29 — A special session at the 69th U.N. General Assembly discussed the spread of the Ebola virus in…

October 1, 2014