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Paper mill workers in Miramichi, New Brunswick, have been on strike for more than five months against one of the largest forest product companies in the world, Finnish-owned UPM Kymmene. Their cause made headlines in mid-February when 300 workers defied an injunction and created mass picket...

The recent AFL-CIO debates have generated much smoke and thunder. What’s lacking is a short- to medium-term strategy that gets at how workers and unions can tap the strength they find on the job. . . .

For more than 20 years, there has been a growing recognition that the labor movement is in crisis. Over the past 12 months, even the most ardent defenders of the status quo have accepted that we are in trouble. . . .

More than 7,000 service workers at campuses from Berkeley to San Diego pulled a one-day strike April 14, protesting the University of California’s (UC) hardball stance during contract negotiations . . . .

What do the coming changes in the AFL-CIO mean for the health and safety of workers? It’s unclear what will happen with different union leaders’ proposals as the July AFL-CIO Convention approaches. The proposals of both the AFL-CIO’s John Sweeney and SEIU’s Andy Stern will result in...

These have been odd debates going on in the AFL-CIO.

To begin with, many of the debaters are reformers, or claim to be, even though some of them are top union officials—people with significant power in the largest U.S. unions. The terms we use to describe unions get an extra stretching...

A coalition of militant, reform-minded teacher unionists swept March 2 local elections for the United Teachers-Los Angeles (UTLA/AFT)—the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union local. The election marked the first time in UTLA’s 35-year history that the incumbent officers were turned out of...