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Teachers laboring under slashed budgets in crowded classrooms, under intense pressure to raise student test scores, now face a fresh challenge—from Hollywood's pro-charter school documentary, “Waiting for Superman.”

Larry Hanley was elected president last month of the 190,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union, which organizes bus drivers and other transit workers in cities across the U.S. and Canada. Delegates to the ATU convention voted 372-272 for Hanley over incumbent Ron Heintzman.

In a time when politicians are wringing their hands over “out-of-control” spending, Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security has contracted the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, a private company, to assess terrorist threats--like Jobs with Justice.

Home health workers and childcare workers will lose their unions if the Right to Work foundation has its way in court. This long-time foe of unionization denies their status as workers.

Ask airport security workers who runs the Transportation Security Administration, and the “good old boys’ club” comes up a lot. Two unions are vying at TSA, campaigning for bargaining rights so they can square off in an election.

Close to 3.5 million workers took to the streets of France Tuesday, protesting the government’s plans to cut public pensions. The demonstrations included disruptive strikes among key groups of workers, which some unions want to continue indefinitely.

What are workers to do when, after they file a petition for a union election, the employer declares the entire workforce no longer employed? That’s what happened early this summer to adjunct faculty trying to organize at East-West University in Chicago.