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The battle being waged at Northwest Airlines (NWA) by the independent Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) and its supporters rolls on into its second month. Northwest’s management has increased the pressure on the 4,400 strikers, pushing demands further and further as the weeks...

Though in the past few years much attention has been paid to Iran due to concerns over its nuclear power, another type of power has been slowly re-emerging, with little coverage from mainstream media: workers’ power . . . .

Brothers and sisters. What makes us human, is not our labor, but rather our ability to create. As soon as our bellies are full, and we are warm and safe, we begin making drawings in caves, banging on sticks, dancing in the moonlight, and telling fairy tales. It is our creativity that makes us...

To get to this year’s heated AFL-CIO convention in Chicago, you had to walk the length of the newly remodeled Navy Pier, past a funhouse complete with a massive maze of mirrors. Watching people lost in confusion inside the maze, it was hard not to think about the tangled mess that was unfolding...

Behind the war of personalities and the big ideas of the dueling AFL-CIO and Change to Win (CTW) leaders, a story emerges that portrays the split as a play for power as much as it was about differences between the two camps . . . .

Though most folks wouldn’t know it, the July AFL-CIO convention wasn’t that month’s only national union convention. More than 9000 delegates of the National Education Association (NEA) — the largest union in the U.S. — met in Los Angeles from July 2 through 6 for their annual Representative...