Who does the work is a big part of why women earn less. You can look at it from two very different types of jobs -- child-care worker and parking-lot attendant. Guess who earns more? Parking-lot attendants. That work is valued more by our society than a child-care worker.

People ask me why I didn't just leave him. For battered women, it's not a matter of 'just.' The greatest reason women don't leave is fear.

A collective bargaining agreement is not the only way a labor movement can represent workers.

We'll be part of labor's 2006 mobilization plan.

That companies are making money and still can't pay a living wage seems obscene, ... (Corporations) will say they have to suppress wages to provide low-cost consumer products and services, but they don't tell you about the unbelievable profits they enjoy and the huge paychecks being reaped at the top.

There is still a wage gap in every single job classification except one or two, ... There still is discrimination in pay in equal jobs.