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  • New Rules for Wisconsin Unions: No Rules
    Theresa Moran
    Feb 10 2012 - 9:57am

    Wisconsin public workers face harsher work rules and shrinking paychecks as contracts expire and Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill sets in. Unions find they must shift from a servicing model to organizing in order to survive.

  • Against the Tide, Michigan Graduate Employees Fight for a Union
    Liz DeLisle Rodrigues, Jim McAsey
    Feb 8 2012 - 12:22pm

    Research assistants at the University of Michigan are finding their battle to unionize caught up in the larger fight over public sector workers’ right to bargain.

  • Caterpillar Cracks the Whipsaw, Closing Ontario Plant
    Herman Rosenfeld
    Feb 6 2012 - 12:39pm

    Caterpillar announced Friday it would close its London, Ontario, locomotive plant after 465 workers there refused to grant concessions that would cut their wages in half. Cat will ship the jobs to a non-union plant in Indiana.

  • Indiana’s ‘Right to Work’ Foes Could Bring the Fight to Super Bowl
    Theresa Moran
    Feb 2 2012 - 5:22pm

    As Indiana becomes the nation’s 23rd right-to-work state, unionists and Occupiers are considering what actions to take as the nation’s attention focuses on the NFL championship in Indianapolis.