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Hundreds of West Coast longshore workers blocked a train in July and more than a hundred have been arrested in a remarkable campaign of civil disobedience. They seek to prevent an anti-union company from moving grain through a Columbia River port.

Locked-out sugar beet workers, their families, and supporters turned out in big numbers August 11 to say they want to work—but not on the terms offered by American Crystal Sugar.

ACS locked out more than 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers August 1,...

The right-wing Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik is not a “lone madman." He can only be understood in his political context—which includes a union movement that substituted national competition for international solidarity.

Verizon’s strike in the Northeast is into Day Five and big picket lines are turning away customers at the company’s wireless stores. Verizon seeks injunctions against strikers at its offices and stores, while mobile picketers chase scabs.

What is it like to work in an auto plant these days? The company mantra is to do more work with fewer people and less money. My co-workers are less than optimistic about winning back the concessions we all made to keep Chrysler in business.

At Verizon locations throughout the Northeast, 45,000 workers started walking picket lines Sunday. “We’re on strike for our bargaining rights, just like Wisconsin or Ohio,” said CWA President Larry Cohen.

Jokes about the U.S. becoming “Europe’s Mexico” are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness. As Chinese wages rise and U.S. wages fall, manufacturing costs in the two countries are converging fast.