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El 9 de noviembre, trabajadores de la limpieza en Boston ratificaron un contrato de cinco años dos semanas después de terminar una huelga de 23 dias que atrajo atención nacional. Los administradores de la union de los trabajadores de la limpieza, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)...

"Fund the contracts or we won't work."

This militant message from over 200 rank-and-file members from the campus's five unions rang through the Mullins Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst November 6.

On September 16, 2,200 clerical, blue collar, and professional workers in the Santa Cruz County chapter of Service Employees Local 415 walked out. Their employer was long committed to substandard wages, and now planning layoffs in response to a fiscal crisis. And there was only one solid pro-...

This fall the AFL-CIO kicked its election strategy into full gear. Promising “No More Business As Usual” for candidates who refused to embrace labor’s issues, the federation committed massive amounts of cash and manpower to mostly Democratic Party candidates.

That support failed to push...

The labor movement as it is currently constructed is incapable of increasing the size and power of unions in the United States. Labor has 15 million members, billions of dollars in dues, hundreds of billions in pension capital, political power, and the leverage of collective bargaining. These...

This fall the AFL-CIO kicked its election strategy into full gear. Promising “No More Business As Usual” for candidates who refused to embrace labor’s issues, the federation committed massive amounts of cash and manpower to mostly Democratic Party candidates.

This fall the AFL-CIO kicked its election strategy into full gear. Promising “No More Business As Usual” for candidates who refused to embrace labor’s issues, the federation committed massive amounts of cash and manpower to mostly Democratic Party candidates.