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The summer heat wave got even hotter on the picket line in front of the Chicago Park Hyatt yesterday when hotel managers turned winter heat lamps on their striking workers. They were striking for the day as part of a wave of pickets and civil disobedience hitting Hyatt hotels in nine cities....

After more than a year, the lockout at the Honeywell uranium conversion plant in Illinois looks to end. Details are scant, but members say a corporate campaign and constant investigations have moved the company.

If 55 package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in Massachusetts win a union election August 3, it will be the first time ever for handlers at the giant non-union shipper. They’re facing a fierce anti-union campaign.

Nine thousand college students, labor activists, and human rights advocates from across South Korea gathered Saturday to support a woman welder who has been staging a lone sit-in since January on top of a 115-foot shipyard crane. But on Tuesday Kim Jin-suk tweeted that security guards had begun...

A sunny day on Lansing’s Capitol lawn brought the Michigan Nurses Association out today to hold a soup kitchen serving people left in need by the state’s drastic budget cuts.

Faculty members in Florida’s public institutions of higher learning have responded to the state legislature’s attack on public employee unionism by building unions in their right-to-work state at an outstanding rate.

Protesting cuts to their pensions and a higher retirement age, 600,000 public sector workers and teachers struck across Britain June 30, and rallied in 80 towns and cities. They say bigger strikes are in store this fall.