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In the wake of the November Teamster election, top officials are calling for stripping members of their right to vote for president and international officers.

Just as the cherry blossoms fell from their trees as summer began in Washington, D.C., the 170,000 registered nurses who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, launched their Main Street Contract campaign.

Six months later, NNU’s campaign is resonating...

Last December, the talk was all about budget deficits, “greedy” public workers, and the swelling heads of the Tea Party.

What a difference this year has seen—starting with the 100,000 Wisconsinites who took to the streets and shut their legislature. Now, the Occupiers have given labor...

Several tax initiatives could appear on next year’s ballot in California, and unions are weighing endorsements as they decide between taxes aimed at the 99%—or the 1%. One coalition is pushing a millionaires’ tax that could raise $6 billion.

After a year of fruitless attempts to meet with management, frustrated Comcast technicians at the Fall River and Fairhaven garages in Massachusetts sought an NLRB supervised election six weeks ago.

Votes were counted Wednesday and union supporters fell short. Labor law would have...

When leaders of the Occupy movement’s most reliable labor ally, the Longshore Union (ILWU), declared the union would not participate in Monday’s shutdown of West Coast ports, they illustrated a great weakness plaguing our unions.

For the second time in a month, the Occupy movement called for mass action to shut down ports. This time, the occupiers targeted the entire West Coast.