Refusing to promise a living wage, a New York retail developer lost out on about $60 million in subsidies. Campaigns nationally are tying public money used in mega-projects to decent wage and working standards.

Nearly 1,000 hotel workers and supporters converged on the posh downtown San Francisco Hilton, opening a new front in UNITE HERE Local 2’s months-long contract battle.

Forty bus drivers at Georgia Tech received an early gift for the holidays on December 18 when they learned they would no longer have jobs after the New Year. Ho-ho-ho.

Nearly eleven months of courtroom stalling has slowed the upstart NUHW but a break in the legal logjam may be coming—finally giving California’s health care workers the ability to choose their union.

An unprecedented coalition of students and workers is responding to the attacks on higher education with strikes, marches, teach-ins, and building occupations.

After an exuberant opening of 2009, the year brought mostly bad news for workers and the labor movement. As always, though, some soldiered on, creating the stories of courage and resistance to inspire the rest of us.

Why are workers forced to occupy plants and blockade workplaces to get what they are legally entitled to? Canadian auto workers are in a bitter struggle just to win severance and benefits they're owed.

I am not aware of any current UNITE HERE staff who think pink sheeting is a real issue—either important or widespread enough—for us to pursue. Nor have I seen abuses like those claimed. Most of us, however, are clear about how the allegations of pink sheeting have been used against UNITE HERE.

What happens when a guppy swallows a whale? In telecom, it’s meant service problems, then bankruptcy—which spells concessions for workers.

UNITE HERE is known as a dynamic organizing union that mobilizes its members around effective comprehensive campaigns. But it suffers from a deeply undemocratic decision-making structure that uses abusive methods to recruit and retain low-level staff and members—and to quiet dissent.

East Coast Laborers and worker centers are creating locals of mostly immigrant members, promising union presence in residential construction—at lower wages.

Thirty thousand more soldiers to Afghanistan, not enough dollars for jobs. President Obama announced both within three days, and labor activists are asking, “What’s wrong with this picture?”

Online social media tools like Twitter are often dismissed as time-wasters for the procrastinator in all of us. But they’re also being harnessed for greater causes. You can use Twitter and text messaging to keep members educated and mobilize them for action.

Nearly 70 Steelworkers at a Carquest parts warehouse in Bay City, Michigan, have been locked out since September 25. The company brought a stack of proposals as big as the contract itself this summer, but stormed out when the union refused to yield as much as management wanted.