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Copper miners occupying pits in northern Mexico are bracing for an invasion by federal troops after refusing to give up their two-and-a-half year strike. In Southern California, borate miners are locked out, insisting that the good union jobs don't become “junk jobs.” And in Ontario, nickel...

Book Review: Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, by Tom Kochan, Robert McKersie, Adrienne Eaton, and Paul Adler (Cornell ILR Press, 2009)

Most labor relations academics are unabashedly anti-union, reflecting the influence of business and the decline...

Contract lecturers at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti are fighting a hostile administration over the right for part-time adjunct lecturers to join the lecturers' union. They're part of one-third of teachers not on the tenure track nationally who've been on the job at least five years...

The National Labor Relations Board, crippled for years, will continue its dysfunction as political wrangling in the Senate and President Obama’s failure to make recess appointments leaves three of five board seats unfilled. That means Bush-era anti-union decisions will stay on the books for...

The mantra is jobs, and the government has unlocked the public coffers to subsidize employers that are hiring. But what kind of jobs are they creating with our tax dollars? In New York, the Teamsters are putting the heat on employers only too happy to pocket public money while creating lousy...

Yes, Oregon voters raised taxes on the rich. Slightly. But instead of countering right-wing fear-mongering about taxes, we almost seemed to agree. We need to tell people why taxes, always defined as the price of civilization, have now become even more necessary.