What a year it's been for workers! From Wisconsin to Washington, D.C., on the football field and the factory floor, we've seen unprecedented attacks on working families from big corporations and their friends in elected office. But what the folks behind these attacks didn't anticipate was that their actions would...

In September, an investigative report revealed that Amazon.com's Breinigsville, PA, warehouse has been operating like a sweatshop - with employees working on their hands and knees at a frantic pace, enduring the pain because they're afraid of losing their jobs. Amazon had even forced employees to work in temperatures...

The country is in crisis. Unemployment is still hovering at 9 percent, income inequality has soared to record levels, and 46 million -- one in six -- Americans are living in poverty. Meanwhile, corporate taxes are at their lowest level in 50 years. Some corporations like General Electric...

Companies everywhere, take note: turns out it's not impossible after all. Businesses can thrive and do right by their workers.

Who knew?

For one, Eurofresh, the country's leading producer and marketer of pesticide-free greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers. For the past decade, the company's tomatoes have been named "America's Best...

Over this past Labor Day weekend, American Rights at Work teamed up with Actors' Equity, AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Major League Baseball Players Association in support of what we called a "Labor Day Tweet-a-thon."

We asked...

This Labor Day, America is facing a dizzying array of problems, none more acute than the twin crises of how poorly we treat our workers and how appallingly we treat our planet. In case anyone believes these issues are distinct and need to be addressed separately, let's remember some of...

It's no secret that employers and workers alike are facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. But innovative businesses across the country are proving how the clean energy economy can give all workers a shot at the American Dream.

In advance of Labor Day, American Rights at Work...

Last week, as we celebrated the 234th anniversary of our nation's birth, we marked another significant date in our country's history -- the 75th birthday of the National Labor Relations Act.

It is a quiet commemoration -- no cake, no fireworks. Having gone nearly eight decades without a meaningful...

As if more evidence was needed that unregulated corporate behavior hurts working families and destroys our environment, now comes news that BP compared its workers to the 'Three Little Pigs' in calculating the dollar value of their lives:

On Good Morning America today, Rand Paul, Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Kentucky, described the deaths of two coal miners crushed in a roof collapse on April 29 at the non-union Dotiki Mine in Eastern Kentucky - Justin Travis, 27, and Michael Carter, 28.

Paul said...

In today's economic climate, America's workers need more than an "Undercover Boss."

Though the CBS hit 'reality' show has wrapped...