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Right in the middle of January contract talks with the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union, Bell Canada announced that it would sell its 2,400-employee operator services division to a U.S. call center outfit. The announcement followed a court ruling that would have allowed the...

On the strength of his dad's reputation, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. now has three years to run the Teamsters Union. But from now on, the magic Hoffa name counts for less.

In the coming months, rank and file Teamsters will care more about what Hoffa does than what his name is. The issues that will...

There is an immigration crisis in the U.S. But it is not one caused by uncontrolled borders or too many immigrants, the stereotyped images used to inflame anti-immigrant hysteria. It is a sweatshop crisis--the return to exploitative conditions in the workplace reminiscent of a century ago. And...

"If you're going to speak Vietnamese, just go back to Vietnam. This is America."

These words of welcome shocked food processing worker Ho Lai as he deboned chicken at a Campbell's Soup plant in Nebraska. It was October 1975, and Lai was a recent arrival in the U.S. He had been forced to...

Until July, it seemed that the United Farm Workers union was on the verge of a breakthrough in its campaign to organize California's strawberry workers. A heated three-year campaign had met with significant successes, including a neutrality agreement with Coastal Berry, the largest strawberry...

"It’s something we don’t dare touch with a ten-foot pole," declared the legislative director for a national union. "This is a very sensitive, ticklish thing."

What's sensitive and ticklish is AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's decision in June to remove his organizing director, Richard...

Edward Hanley, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, has agreed to resign July 31 as head of the 255,000-member union. Hanley's decision resulted from a Department of Justice probe into his financial dealings that grew out of a federally-imposed consent decree. The HERE...