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Workers in South Korea have had a tumultuous year. Auto workers, textile workers, health care workers, bank workers, metalworkers, airline workers, and more have walked off the job repeatedly in response to calls for general strikes from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). Many of...

In some ways, the Teamsters convention in Las Vegas at the end of June was a throwback. The huge majority of delegates voted for everything the leadership proposed and against everything it opposed. As if it were a football game, they loudly cheered their team and booed their opponents.

Union activists across the country know about the Charleston 5—the African American dockworkers charged with rioting by the state of South Carolina. Under the leadership of President Ken Riley, International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422 has organized national and international...

At one time the UAW championed its members' cause to fight company nepotism and cronyism on the factory floor. Today's UAW leaders would rather switch than fight. The "switch" took place in the early 1980s when Jointness appeared on the table.

As thousands of farmworkers, janitors, and supporters prepared to march in North Carolina, Oregon, and California for farmworker rights and immigrant amnesty in mid-June, Mexican and U.S. negotiators were discussing a "guest worker" program as a way to solve the immigration crisis between the...

For three days in May the Detroit Free Press ran a series of long articles alleging widespread corruption in the United Auto Workers, from the shop floor to union headquarters. Several locals are now under investigation by either the U.S. Department of Labor or the FBI. The accusations came...

It had been a wild week--3,000 union members, farmers, and NGO representatives from every country in the hemisphere gathered in Quebec City to discuss alternatives to the Free Trade Area of the Americas. If passed, the FTAA would extend NAFTA-type provisions to the whole hemisphere. By Friday,...