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Health care workers on Canada’s west coast are getting a taste of “sweetheart contracts” that favor multinational corporations over workers’ rights, and the Canadian labor movement is divided on how to respond.

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Members of Service Employees Local 660 beat back management’s demand to force workers to pay increases in health insurance premiums, after hundreds of worksite protests throughout Los Angeles County and massive rallies in the streets and at the offices of the County Board of Supervisors.

New cars are shiny because of special and toxic chemical that's added to their paint jobs...

On the morning of November 8, amid the clean, tree-lined streets and coffee shops, restaurants, and movie theaters of Ann Arbor, passers-by could see a sight that most of the college town's residents weren't used to: a picket line...

Labor Notes asked various labor activists to send us a report of their experience protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas talks which took place in Miami during the week of November 17, 2002. Trade ministers were meeting to try to strike a deal that will expand the current "free trade...

For two years now the strike weapon has been in decline as a tactic in the United States...

This year, for the first time, the United Auto Workers negotiated contracts with the Big Three auto makers almost simultaneously, rather than setting a pattern at one company, sending it to members for ratification, and then negotiating with the other two...