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Long repressed, Iraqi unions are finding remarkable ways to resist the conditions rising from a foreign army’s occupation and help serve the people of Iraq. . . .
Bucking a nationwide trend that is forcing public workers to take unpaid time off, thousands of New Jersey state workers are dogging their governor's heels, resisting his plans to furlough them for nearly three weeks. . . .
The rampage of job-killing is creating desperation among workers and their unions. They are being seduced by “Buy American” and steering toward economic nationalism—a giant distraction that only confuses workers about who our allies are, who our enemies are, and what will advance our own...
In the wreckage of this old economy, there is a vision of a new one worth fighting for. It is time for a new Social Industrial Revolution that fixes our bridges and builds our rail with concrete and steel made in mills in our heartland.
The UNITE HERE secessionists have not exactly made a clean break. Their founding convention took place in Philadelphia, but not all of the union's members in the city — much less the country — were on board. . . .
The "Resistance and Recovery" week of action burst with 250 events in early April. As the corporate attack on workers intensifies with the economic crisis, Jobs with Justice and Student Labor Action Project activists took the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination as occasion to...
It’s April Fool’s day, plus one, in what Bob Dylan once called "the green pastures of Harvard University." What does the guest, Andy Stern, think makes for a good union? “If I was being hypothetical, I’d say democracy" . . . .
Who has paid the price for the painful restructuring the government demanded of GM and Chrysler? Labor Notes' Mark Brenner talks it over on Fox.
Frank Hammer, former president of UAW Local 909, talks about his vision for the auto industry--and how it differs from Obama's.
Labor Notes' Jane Slaughter sat down with a round table of active and retired auto workers from Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler to take a look at how decades of concessions have impacted their work, and their lives. From losing a few precious minutes of break time to major wage and benefit...
In Britain, privatization took an integrated rail system, about which the biggest complaints were the sandwiches, and fragmented it into 100 firms—with dire consequences for safety. Rail workers are calling for re-nationalization. . . .
President Obama and the troubled car companies are raising the frightening prospect of mass layoffs and plant closings. Bankruptcy, unless we rewrite it, is a one-way ticket to disposable jobs in a hollowed-out Midwest. If they're too big to fail, too poorly run to put right, it’s time to take...
Author(s): Carol Lambiase
As town leaders in Wallingford, Connecticut, grudgingly lined up to approve health care benefits for the school district’s paraprofessionals, they complained they felt browbeaten into taking their toughest vote ever.
The months-long tug of war within UNITE HERE continued in March as UNITE leaders seceded from the union, embraced a partnership with SEIU, and signaled they would form a new union to compete for members in HERE’s hotel and gaming jurisdictions—while snatching as many members as possible on the...
Billionaire fraudster Bernie Madoff may be behind bars, but his business model is alive and well. How can we keep high-flying bankers from pulling the same kind of bait-and-switch with taxpayers? Experts — from Nobel Prize-winning economists to Alan Greenspan, the libertarian former Federal...
