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At a Detroit Labor Day rally, Teamsters President James Hoffa created a firestorm. But Sandy Pope, his chief opponent for election next month, says it’s all hot air, from a guy who’s been missing in action for the fights the union should be having, with employers and politicians.

Auto worker dissidents are claiming progress in their campaign against the two-tier system that pays new hires half a wage, as UAW President Bob King now says a pay boost for these workers is his top priority.

Thousands of nurses descended on local Congressional offices Thursday, demanding Wall Street pay for the crisis it created. They want a Wall Street transactions tax, which the national nurse union says could generate $350 billion.

In an election that could further alter the fast-changing landscape of nurse unions, reformers in the New York State Nurses Association gained a big majority on the organization’s board of directors.

Fear is the main thing stopping retail workers from organizing for better treatment at Walmart, said several employees who are doing just that. They lost their fear, they said, after they stood up for themselves and marched on Walmart headquarters.

Still smarting from the beating they took in the media when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt two years ago, auto workers are adamant that they earn every penny. They challenge critics to try working the assembly line for just one day.

As the unions at Verizon enter the uncharted waters of what could still be an intermittent strike, continued mobilization is needed to keep maximum pressure on Verizon.