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Passenger rail projects in Wisconsin and Ohio are dead, and Florida’s is on the chopping block, as incoming Republican governors turn away hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money—and the jobs they would generate.

They’re calling it Obama’s PATCO—his proposal for a two-year wage freeze for two million federal workers. When Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking PATCO members, the air traffic controllers, in August 1981, he sent a signal to other employers that it was open season on unions—and the era of...

Stewards encounter a raft of tricky situations when defending workers against discipline. What counts as disparate treatment? Are anonymous complaints grounds for discipline? Do "zero tolerance" policies trump the contract? Here are some crystal-clear guidelines, excerpted from a forthcoming...

Idled by the housing bust, non-union contractors are attacking agreements that building trades unions have used to defend their work for the last two decades.

As soon as the corn millers and refiners of Keokuk, Iowa, cast an overwhelming “no” vote against a contract choked with 60-plus concessions, workers returned to the plant to clock in for the second shift. They found that their employer, the French firm Roquette, had barricaded them out.

Proposals to cut Social Security benefits were met with outrage when the co-chairs of President Obama’s Fiscal Commission released their recommendations November 10. Though many of the cuts would happen gradually, the cost-of-living formula would be cheapened starting next year—breaking earlier...