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Before Detroiters voted last fall on a half-billion-dollar bond to renovate and build new schools, the state-appointed schools manager launched a campaign to keep kids in public schools. Now he's planning to put kids out, and sell the district to privateers.

Grocery warehouse workers in northern Massachusetts are putting up a spirited fight with wide support from the rest of labor as their strike ends its sixth week. Workers and allies are making Shaw’s Supermarkets the poster child for corporate greed in the state. . . .

Workers at the Providence Westin Hotel in Rhode Island called a boycott in mid-March when management broke off contract talks after imposing a 20 percent wage cut and quadrupling some employee health plan contributions.

It is legal to fire lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender workers for no other reason than their sexual orientation or gender in most states. LGBT people are organizing to change that, and have gotten the Employment Non-Discrimination Act introduced in Congress. . . .

A federal jury in San Francisco awarded damages to the Service Employees union on Friday in its suit against the new National Union of Healthcare Workers. After initial confusion about the award amount, it appears that the jury ordered a total of nearly $750,000 to SEIU and that the amount...

The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago reached an agreement with school administrators that union negotiators said met members' demands.

Healthy unions should welcome workplace discontent. Stewards can turn discontent into campaigns that build workplace power. Sometimes, though, too much unproductive discontent is floating around. What's a steward to do?