Josh Eidelson | The Nation

Under the leadership of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Walmart Foundation used generous gifts to grease the way for store expansions.

American unions are in deep trouble. What’s the way out?

CEO Howard Schultz doesn’t like unions. But he’s happy to coerce his low-paid workers into joining a phony austerity campaign.

The new labor campaign against the retail giant faces daunting odds, and the stakes are high: most of us live in the Walmart economy.

Democratic candidates haven’t always had labor’s back—but Republicans are intent on ending collective bargaining altogether.

In the depressed former steel towns of western Pennsylvania, disillusionment with all politicians is deep. The AFL-CIO's labor affiliate is trying to change that.

Lessons from over eight decades of labor activism.

Republicans have accomplished what Democrats and unions never could: they’ve made the National Labor Relations Board a household name.

As administrators declare there's no alternative to austerity and corporatization in higher ed, student Occupyers fight back.

Workers at a port in Washington State are reviving strike tactics that have become nearly extinct in American labor struggles—and they may just win.