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After 48,000 Canadian postal workers launched a rolling strike in response to unproductive contract negotiations, the country’s Conservative government is pushing back hard. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has introduced back-to-work legislation that bears the smell of Wisconsin and Ohio.

The Los Angeles Labor Notes Troublemakers School on June 11 drew 110 union leaders and rank and filers together to learn from each other.

In an eye-opening interview with Labor Notes about assaults on workers in Iran and their efforts to organize free trade unions, an organizer based in Tehran delves into the volatile situation for advocates of union democracy in a closed society.

Most Teamster conventions in the last 25 years have been held in Las Vegas—for good reason.

Target workers in Valley Stream, Long Island vote on union representation tomorrow. The election is the first at any of Target’s 1,755 stores and a win would crack the solidly anti-union wall surrounding big-box retail.

Union and environmental activists marched for five days through the southern West Virginia coal fields in mid-June to defend a piece of land—historic Blair Mountain—that is sacred to both.

Faced with a surge in guestworkers laboring in the fields, farmworker unions in the U.S. and Canada are crossing borders to organize them and to hold governments to account for programs that exploit workers.