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In May 2001 a reform caucus called PACT (Proactive Chicago Teachers and School Employees) won a surprising election victory in the 35,000-member Chicago Teachers Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. Here’s a balance sheet of PACT’s first year in power...

Why, seven years into the “new AFL-CIO,” have organized labor’s numbers continued to dwindle? Peter Olney, writing in New Labor Forum, notes that despite the national AFL-CIO’s vigorous shaming, coaxing and cajoling of its affiliates, federation membership fell by 68,000 in five years. The AFL...

Although they are 42% of union members in the United States, women are under-represented as union officials. Labor Notes asked a 30-year activist in the United Auto Workers about particular problems women face when they take leadership roles. Wendy Thompson is president of UAW Local 235 in...

For the past year, concern with terrorism has dominated public discourse in the United States. Our sense of security has been badly shaken, while politicians and the mass media have missed no opportunity to remind us of our vulnerability. This single-minded focus is distracting us from a major...

Le 12 septembre 2001, les commentateurs disaient déjà aux Américainsque "rien ne serait plus jamais pareil." Depuis lors, au cours de l'année écoulée, les travailleurs ont constaté que si des choses avaientbeaucoup changé, et d'autres pas du tout, il existait bien maintenantune nouvelle...

Tens of thousands of laid-off, downsized, and retired Chinese workers took to the streets this spring in the best-organized, largest, and longest worker demonstrations in recent Chinese history...

We should never be surprised by what campaign contributions and political connections can accomplish. In Detroit, they allowed a company to fire union workers and replace them with immigrants brought into this country under false pretenses-and then subject the new workers to horrible living...