Only about 20 percent of airport workers are striking after a labor court ruled that they would otherwise face fines of over $20,000.

Hundreds of detainees in a Tacoma, Wa. detention center are striking to protest deportations and what they describe as exploitation within the center, which is owned by the prison operator GEO Group.

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has joined the immigration reform hunger strike in Washington DC.

Ten protesters outside Washington's Capitol Hill have vowed that they will spend Thanksgiving only sipping water to protest the lack of immigration reform progress in government.

Fast for Families, the group organizing the hunger strike for immigration reform, hopes to pressure the House to vote on a comprehensive overhaul passed by the Senate in June.

Following a bird strike Jet Blue was forced to divert a plane from Weschester to Florida at JFK International airport.

A group of relatives from missing people have been camping in Mexico City, asking for a response from officials.

An op-ed by a Guantanamo prison detainee describing his force-feeding was published on Sunday in the New York Times. Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel, who is originally from Yemen, says he has been held without charges for over 11 years.

The union representing nearly 15,000 dockworkers at U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast seaports stretching from Boston to Corpus Christi, Texas, reached a tentative contract deal with shipping companies on Friday, averting a strike that threatened to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy.

Greece's international lenders failed for the second week running to agree how to get the country's debt down to a sustainable level and will have a third go in six days' time.

Public transportation in Argentina as well as grain shipments from the agricultural powerhouse halted on Tuesday for a 24-hour strike over taxes called by a union boss once allied with the government.

Parents should plan for their children to be out of school until at least Wednesday - that's what officials are saying after the Chicago Teachers Union extended its strike into a second week on Sunday.

Brazil's bank workers will take to the streets next week to demand higher pay, the latest in a spree of labor disputes afflicting Latin America's largest economy.