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With premium costs rising by an average of 12%, bargaining over health care costs has become as difficult as it was during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when insurance premiums skyrocketed by similar amounts. Nearly all employees and retirees in the United States are being asked to pay more for their health care benefits...

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On May 2 the Service Employees union and the United Nurses Association/Union of Health Care Professionals (an AFSCME affiliate) announced a neutrality agreement with Tenet, the nation’s second largest for-profit health care corporation. The agreement allows the unions uncontested access to workers in 40 California hospitals and two in Florida...

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The UAW International has entered into an agreement with a fast-growing auto parts maker, Metaldyne, to remain neutral in union organizing drives...

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The AFL-CIO says the Department of Labor’s proposed new requirements, which call for far more detailed accounting of union finances, are excessively burdensome. They claim these regulations are the product of an anti-union, anti-worker Republican administration that wants to undermine the labor movement and divert its resources from organizing and political action in support of Democrats...

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A little over 19 years ago, a chemical leak from the Union Carbide pesticide factory left over 8,000 people dead. The struggle of Bhopali workers for a just resolution, however, is far from over...

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One of the most perplexing yet little observed phenomena of the past century has been the relentless decline of the so-called “labor press.” Once a widely adopted tool for reaching unorganized workers with the union gospel and for communicating within union ranks, the labor press today is at best an afterthought, at worst a public relations machine for union presidents to massage their images...

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Rank and file activists at the big Continental Tire plant in Mt. Vernon, Illinois haven’t given up their dream of organizing a union...