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In an interview, longtime immigrant rights activist David Bacon says labor's new joint position on immigration is inconsistent—and too friendly to employers. It wasn’t always like this. What happened?

Teachers and D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee haven’t agreed on much during 18 months of contract talks with the Washington Teachers Union (AFT), but there’s consensus on one point: any agreement will affect schools far beyond the capital.

As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union...

When the Service Employees and California Nurses Association called a truce in March, many union observers were confused—but breathed a sigh of relief. What does the SEIU-CNA deal mean for health care unions in California and beyond?. . . .

Chrysler’s concessions-or-die deal is the end of auto as the pace-setting, high-wage industry that it was for 60 years. No longer will it set standards all blue-collar workers could aspire to—nor outmatch many white-collar jobs. From now on, working for the auto companies will be just another...

Instead of emptying auto factories and dispersing thousands of skilled workers in the Midwest who’ve spent a lifetime shaping metal into useful things, why doesn't Obama take a page from an exhausted steel plant now making wind turbines? . . . .

Five of six budget proposals failed to pass on California's May 19 statewide ballot. The state’s unions lined up on both sides of the vote, and spent millions of dollars while sending members to knock on doors ahead of the vote. The proposals were Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed...