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Stacey and Don Kemp, both auto workers in Michigan, are looking forward to the Labor Notes Conference. Stacey sits on the steering committee of Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS), the rank-and-file group of auto workers that has been organizing against concessions. She’s a member of UAW Local 467 and...

As Toronto sweltered under summer temperatures and smog warnings, 700,000 transit riders unexpectedly found themselves out on the streets during morning rush hour on Monday, May 29, looking for alternative means of transportation...

Several months ago, the Wall Street Journal described an increase in strikes in the United States. But the modest revival of grassroots activity in the U.S. labor movement at the end of 2005 has largely been missed by the mainstream press...

After a 13-hour occupation at the University of Miami (UM) on March 28, 16 students and a campus chaplain emerged from the administrative building at 1:40 a.m. with a promise from UM President Donna Shalala to meet with the janitors attempting to unionize on the campus...

Are the days of the “defined benefit” pension over? After the last two years, many people seem to think so. In a recent interview, Boston College Professor Alicia Munnell summed up a common view on pensions for the Wall Street Journal: “Our employer-based social welfare system is collapsing. [...

Eager to rid themselves of workers whose contracts provide rights and entitlements, General Motors and Delphi Corp. will offer buyouts to induce workers to leave the two companies. GM’s goal is to lose 30,000 of the 113,000 hourly workers now on its books. The company employed over 133,000 in...

In the first-ever direct election for Teamsters General President in 1991, reform candidate Ron Carey won a surprising upset victory over the incumbent old guard. Carey was removed from office in 1998 by the federal government’s Independent Review Board. He was later acquitted of all criminal...