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San Francisco General Hospital nurses flooded city hall and are planning a strike vote to redress severe staffing shortages at the city's premier public hospital.

Retail sales and customer service reps voted 2 to 1 to join the Communications Workers at six Brooklyn Verizon stores. The wireless side of telecom has remained largely unorganized, but these new unionists hope to cause a ripple effect.

Mother Jones once proclaimed Illinois to be “the best-organized labor state in America,” and the people of the Illinois coalfields—where Kevin Corley’s new novel Sixteen Tons takes place—were always at the center of the action.

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is downplaying financial gains at the Postal Service, which has been reporting revenue increases for five straight quarters. Why is Donahoe minimizing the winning streak?

For the past four years we’ve been turning our grievances into organizing tools, mobilizing workers and the community around our grievance issues.

University of California executives hoped this round of bargaining would extract deep concessions on benefits from 22,000 hospital and campus workers.

Seattle is getting close to enacting the first $15 minimum wage in a big city in the U.S. Labor and community groups are celebrating, but many are chagrined at the long, tiered phase-in, the problematic "training wage" provision, and weak penalties for employers who don't comply.