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The Chicago Teachers Union stepped closer to a strike as it voted today to reject an arbitrator’s recommendations in the contract dispute with “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel.
The focus of political organizing has to be identifying, reducing, and then eliminating corporate control and power. But if national unions can’t be counted on to be the solid center of an anti-corporate movement, how do we get there?
Service Employees 1199 New England is striking five Connecticut nursing homes to defend contracts against sweeping concessions.
In Indianapolis, hotel workers hired through a temp agency are denouncing a blacklist that prevents them from getting jobs directly with city hotels. Organizing with UNITE HERE, they've filed suit.
Wisconsin unions were denied a lengthy mourning of last month's recall results when immigrant workers at Palermo’s Pizza factory walked out to demand recognition. Their strike is galvanizing the Milwaukee labor community.
When the next opportunity for labor law reform arrives, union membership will be smaller and our political clout even more diminished. If we are to succeed, future reform proposals must be wrapped in a broader mantle that will appeal to all workers.
It surprised many when the National Union of Healthcare Workers—a quintessential service sector union—announced in February its intent to affiliate with the Machinists, which has an extensive industrial union history. An interview with three principal players delves into the thinking behind the...
New York City's utility company locked out 8,500 workers in a summer heat wave, attacking pensions and health care. Members chanted and cheered on pickets as the union questioned replacements' safety training.
Community supporters are turning out once again at a small grocery store in the Kensington neighborhood in Brooklyn to aid workers fighting for their union.
President Obama's policies have cost thousands of immigrant workers their jobs. But SEIU Local 26 fought alongside immigrant members and communities, used the contract to win protections, and extended the gains to non-members.
Organizing has fallen off the map in most conversations about labor’s future. Every day we shrink further and further. Every organizing drive is more difficult to win. What—if anything—is refreshing about our organizing?
More than 4,000 union members and community supporters, including many Walmart workers, marched in Los Angeles Saturday. They opposed the chain's bid to bring its tornado of destruction into urban centers.
After the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, much of labor issued a glowing reaction. But some unions said unhealthy provisions are hiding in the bill—and the court's decision.
A racially mixed workforce in an Alabama poultry plant defeated management’s attempts to exploit their diversity, turning aside the divide-and-conquer tactics and voting in the union.
The last four years have created some uncomfortable arithmetic for unions. Are we at a tipping point, where labor is no longer able to influence conditions and create a shared working-class common sense? If we are, where should we focus?
