I was living the American Dream. Now I’m living a nightmare that never seems to end.

I’m a single mom and have worked for the state of California for 32 years. All my life, I’ve been self sufficient and careful to live within my means.

The…

The hardest knock on the door I’ve ever heard was the Hennepin County Sheriff at our door. No, we hadn’t broken the law. The sheriff had come to drop off our foreclosure papers.

When a lot of people think about foreclosures, they get the im…

You are deep in mandatory overtime (which you don’t get OT pay for) and you’re so exhausted that you start making really bad mistakes – dangerous mistakes.

We’ve all been there in one way or another in our working lives, but what if you wer…

You may have already heard about Zoila Sosa, who fasted for 72 hours outside the glitzy L.A. address of 2000 Avenue of the Stars, in protest of losing her job as a janitor for JPMorgan Chase. It was an emotional week for Zoila, who was dependi…

A few weeks ago, after three and half years working the night shift cleaning a JPMorgan Chase-owned building in Los Angeles, I was laid-off. At $13.50 an hour, you’d think my salary would be a mere drop in the bucket for a company like JPMorg…

I am a janitor, I am a dedicated worker, I am the proud mother of three children and I am an SEIU Member.

As a single mother, I work hard to provide for my three young children. But sometimes, hard work just isn’t enough. It was only a few mo…

Helen Sieger, the former owner and operator of Kingsbridge Heights Nursing Home in the Bronx–where two hundred 1199SEIU members held a strike for seven months in 2008–is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly bribing a hospital official …

I would like to think I am living the American Dream.

I immigrated to the United States almost two decades ago and later earned my United States citizenship. Today, I am proud to say that my son Jesus recently finished medical school and is s…

For the last thirteen years I have been a Homecare Aid in Lucasville, OH. I work each day to ensure that senior citizens can continue to live independently, adults and children with disabilities can live with dignity and people facing terminal…

Learn More The American Prospect’s Special Report: Jobs Well Done The story of America’s rise to global prominence is the story of the American worker. And everything about it is unprecedented. We’re the most productive. We’re the most educat…