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As Florida's tomato pickers turn their attention to grocery chains, they're training farmworkers to form committees and stand up for themselves on the job—and reporting notable success.

New York City teachers decried the release of test-based evaluations they say seek to discredit them and get rid of as many as possible. The flawed data wouldn't have been gathered, some noted, without their union's initial approval.

Women workers are attacking low pay and bias from many angles, assailing wage laws that exclude them, suing over outright discrimination, and trying to organize unions. And they’ve been confronting the disrespect that accompanies smaller paychecks.

Adjunct professors at American University in Washington, D.C., won a union last month, but not before two years of organizing made it possible.

For 76 years domestic workers have been excluded from federal labor law, denied basic protections in addition to collective bargaining rights. But in the last two years, domestic workers have racked up important victories, and are looking for more.

Social media are presenting new challenges for unions as employers develop policies and discipline employees for online behavior. But whether workers are talking to each other in the lunch room or on Facebook, labor law still provides protections for private-sector workers.

It’s a strange disconnect: what union leaders expect from their political allies and what they actually get. The latest example comes from the largest federal workers union, which Democrats just forced to take a pension hit estimated to cost workers $15 billion.