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I’m an elementary school teacher with a crummy evaluation. It’s a testament to the families at my school that I didn't spend my February vacation responding to angry or terrified emails from my students’ parents.

In the year since Wisconsin's uprising, outrage compressed into a single word: recall. But some are discussing what next, if the recalls are successful. One union is debating whether to endorse Democrats who won't reverse cuts to public services and workers.

A California teachers union struck a deal with Governor Jerry Brown that would combine a millionaires tax with a sales tax boost. Union activists split on the move, saying it contains key flaws, but shows how the debate on taxes has shifted.

For 76 years domestic workers have been excluded from federal labor law, denied basic protections in addition to collective bargaining rights. But in the last two years, domestic workers have racked up important victories, and are looking for more.

Social media are presenting new challenges for unions as employers develop policies and discipline employees for online behavior. But whether workers are talking to each other in the lunch room or on Facebook, labor law still provides protections for private-sector workers.

It’s a strange disconnect: what union leaders expect from their political allies and what they actually get. The latest example comes from the largest federal workers union, which Democrats just forced to take a pension hit estimated to cost workers $15 billion.