Warehouse workers organizing in key logistics hubs across the country could get a boost from a union vote at a Bed Bath and Beyond distribution center in New Jersey, where immigrant workers filed for a Labor Board election today.

Governor Scott Walker singled out employees of the University of Wisconsin for special treatment in his budget-cutting and union-busting. Now they're facing unilateral policies that seek a “market-based model” for pay.

New York nurses upended the 100-year power imbalance between bedside nurses and nurse managers yesterday, voting to bar managers and put the union in the hands of the nurses who comprise 99 percent of membership.

Oregon activists are responding to escalating health care costs by rejuvenating a grassroots campaign to win a system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.

Even a group of a dozen had a hard time keeping up with everything 1,500 union activists and troublemakers of all stripes—from all over the world—were up to at the weekend's Labor Notes Conference.

Records are being broken all over the place as 1,500 union activists, worker center members, and workplace troublemakers are gathering in Chicago for the biggest Labor Notes conference yet.

The oil refiner Tesoro took a $40 million loss after an explosion last year that claimed seven lives. Management is trying to recoup the money by forcing workers to pay for its mistakes, leading Steelworkers to prepare for a strike.

Given the attack on the Occupy camps last fall, the assault on labor, and the spread of Arizona-style anti-immigrant laws, what would happen this May Day was an open question. Would it see the revival of the Occupy movement, allied with labor and immigrants?

At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this morning outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes. Signs read, "We pay taxes, why don't you?"

Fifteen people were killed when a casino-bound bus crashed in the Bronx. Two months later a tour bus overturned in Virginia and killed four. Bus accidents kill about 50 passengers a year—and the biggest reason is driver fatigue. Drivers are exempt from federal overtime rules.

When reformers take over at the union hall, they can make remarkable changes, transforming dormant locals into ones with proud members who put management on notice. But some stumble. What happens?

Despite the fact that 2011 saw the highest transit ridership in a half century, many regional and municipal transit authorities are facing huge budget cuts and steep service reductions. But several local coalitions are working to expand transit options.

Rather than waiting for a right-to-work law to pass, Michigan unions are mounting a petition drive to make anti-union bills unconstitutional. They need 322,609 signatures to get on the November ballot .

If you thought retiring would help you avoid the ruination of living standards brought on by the economic crisis, Rhode Island’s pension overhaul just proved you wrong. Pension cuts are hurting every worker—current, retired, and future.

In the year since the Wisconsin uprising, outrage has been compressed into a single word: recall. But some are discussing what next, if the recalls are successful. Will they be enough to take Wisconsin forward?

Can concessions save jobs? Almost always they cannot, and certainly not in the big picture. Concessions can’t fix a collapsed market or stop offshoring, nor the 1%’s relentless assault on the working class. But concessions may save jobs in the short term if the union bargains hard in areas not traditional to our thinking and gets specific, concrete guarantees.