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When union members were encouraged to support the health care bills passed in Massachusetts in 2006 and by Congress last year, they were told there’d be less health care cost-shifting from employers onto employees.

Grocery workers in Southern California are digging in their heels against health care givebacks demanded by three profitable supermarket chains.

Unfazed by the rebellion that has shaken their state since February, Republican legislators in Wisconsin called an “extraordinary session” to push through every aspect of the right-wing agenda they can lay a pen to.

Four years of pressure forced cigarette manufacturer Reynolds American to agree to meet with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to discuss working conditions in its supply chain. Union activists pointed to subminimum wages as well as illnesses and heat-stroke deaths among tobacco pickers.

California’s United Farm Workers finally got a bill past the state legislature providing for majority sign-up union recognition. But in Canada, the country's highest court rubberstamped a law denying collective bargaining to 80,000 farmworkers in the province.

A year after President Obama signed his health care reform with strong support from the labor movement, advocates of a single-payer system might be tempted to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” Labor Campaign for Single Payer activists gathered in D.C. to assess their progress.

With slick promotion reminiscent of Silicon Valley product rollouts, SEIU persuaded convention delegates three years ago that call centers were essential to “high quality member representation.” The results haven't lived up to the hype.