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Chicago Teachers Union leaders vowed that their seven-day strike was just one step in their fight to defend public education. Now teachers and community groups are demanding a moratorium on school closings. Ten were arrested Friday.

There’s plenty of pressure to bite your tongue and keep quiet about your criticisms till after the election, but a few unions turned the conventional wisdom on its head this year, piping up instead of quieting down.

Union members are on the front lines cleaning up after weather disasters caused by global warming. It’s time for unions to be on the front lines of preventing them.

In his now-famous 47 percent speech, Mitt Romney wrote off almost half of Americans as deadbeats and hopeless dependents. But who actually generates society's wealth—is it the "job creators," or is it workers?

The labor-community coalition Missouri Jobs with Justice is taking on low-wage employers, championed by the Missouri Restaurant Association, and the payday loan industry.

The U.S. presidential election has held up a decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but in Canada, unions have joined environmentalists to battle another pipeline—this one headed for the pristine west coast of Canada.

Orchestras are resorting to lockouts to try to force big pay cuts, with four just this fall. From management's behavior, you’d never know that the arts are still good business.