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Are there more of us than there are of the Tea Party? The One Nation Working Together rally in Washington October 2 is the union movement’s answer to the Tea Party-Glenn Beck types, says Steve Kramer, vice president of a union that hopes to send 50,000 members on buses to D.C.

Wednesday afternoon, the major shipping carriers agreed to negotiate and the ILA announced a return to work. Longshore workers had shut the East Coast’s biggest port yesterday and today, honoring a picket line by Philadelphia ILA members.

Unlike in France, the U.S. Social Security system is running a surplus—$2.3 trillion, in fact, projected to last till 2037. Yet raising the retirement age, as high as 70, seems to be Washington’s favorite bright idea. President Obama appointed a Deficit Commission to figure out how to bring...

CSX, the third-largest railroad in the U.S., released a new attendance policy last month that trumps various union contracts. The vague and unsafe blanket policy says workers are not allowed to mark off sick for more than two days in a rolling 30-day period, regardless of work schedule or job...

After 114 days on the picket line, strikers at the Mott’s plant outside Rochester, New York, voted September 13 to accept the company’s contract offer. Workers, who produce applesauce and juice for Mott’s parent company Dr. Pepper-Snapple, returned to work the following week. The vote was 185...

Are there more of us than there are of the Tea Party? The One Nation Working Together rally in Washington October 2 is the union movement’s answer to the Tea Party-Glenn Beck types, says Steve Kramer, a vice president in the union that launched the idea. 1199SEIU, the East Coast health care...