With cheers and chants that echoed President-elect Barack Obama's campaign of change, jubilant workers agreed to a $1.75 million settlement that ends their six-day occupation of a shuttered Chicago factory that became a symbol of the plight of labor nationwide.

Longshoremen on the West Coast went on strike today to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If 2007-2008 has taught us anything, it's that organized labor still has some fight left in it after all. Via MeFi.