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New Zealand’s newest union, Unite, has captivated a workforce ignored by most unions around the world: young service-sector workers, many of them people of color in fast-food jobs.
Eight doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer health care system were arrested yesterday when they disrupted a Senate committee meeting, demanding to know why experts representing their position were being excluded. . . .
The media consensus is that union auto workers escaped the government-imposed restructuring of their industry basically unharmed, exchanging a few dings for control of the companies. Nothing could be further from the truth. . . .
In what could act as a signal to other big union companies, AT&T is playing on hard times to demand a raft of concessions. The telecommunications giant and its workers are battling over who will carry the burden for health care.
Long repressed, Iraqi unions are finding remarkable ways to resist the conditions rising from a foreign army’s occupation and help serve the people of Iraq. . . .
Bucking a nationwide trend that is forcing public workers to take unpaid time off, thousands of New Jersey state workers are dogging their governor's heels, resisting his plans to furlough them for nearly three weeks. . . .
The rampage of job-killing is creating desperation among workers and their unions. They are being seduced by “Buy American” and steering toward economic nationalism—a giant distraction that only confuses workers about who our allies are, who our enemies are, and what will advance our own...
In the wreckage of this old economy, there is a vision of a new one worth fighting for. It is time for a new Social Industrial Revolution that fixes our bridges and builds our rail with concrete and steel made in mills in our heartland.
The UNITE HERE secessionists have not exactly made a clean break. Their founding convention took place in Philadelphia, but not all of the union's members in the city — much less the country — were on board. . . .
The "Resistance and Recovery" week of action burst with 250 events in early April. As the corporate attack on workers intensifies with the economic crisis, Jobs with Justice and Student Labor Action Project activists took the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination as occasion to...
It’s April Fool’s day, plus one, in what Bob Dylan once called "the green pastures of Harvard University." What does the guest, Andy Stern, think makes for a good union? “If I was being hypothetical, I’d say democracy" . . . .
Who has paid the price for the painful restructuring the government demanded of GM and Chrysler? Labor Notes' Mark Brenner talks it over on Fox.
Frank Hammer, former president of UAW Local 909, talks about his vision for the auto industry--and how it differs from Obama's.
Labor Notes' Jane Slaughter sat down with a round table of active and retired auto workers from Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler to take a look at how decades of concessions have impacted their work, and their lives. From losing a few precious minutes of break time to major wage and benefit...
In Britain, privatization took an integrated rail system, about which the biggest complaints were the sandwiches, and fragmented it into 100 firms—with dire consequences for safety. Rail workers are calling for re-nationalization. . . .
