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When was the last time you heard a union president denounce another union president—publicly? For labor’s upper echelon, the most scrupulously honored principle is protocol. (And you thought it was “solidarity.”)

But at the UNITE HERE convention in late June, the torrent of abuse heaped...

Seizing on procedural grounds to stop local leaders moving rapidly to disaffiliate, the AFT took over an Oregon health care local in July. Ousted leaders had floated the possibility of going independent, or joining with another AFL-CIO nurse union.

It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform. Resolutions favoring “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system, have been passed by 558 unions, central labor councils, state federations, and other union organizations. Yet in practice leaders of many of those same unions...

Outsized buttons proclaimed it “history in the making.” Indeed, nothing like it has been seen in the United States for decades.

Technology gives health care workers new tools to digitize medical records and locate supplies, but it also gives managers the ability to track workers. Increased monitoring means speed-up, harassment, and worse.

Each year around budget time, Californians hear a familiar story from Sacramento: There’s another stalemate, because state law caps property tax rates and requires two-thirds of legislators to approve tax hikes.

Outsized buttons proclaimed it “history in the making.” Indeed, nothing like it has been seen in the United States for decades. Over 1,500 union members gathered in Cleveland June 6-9 to found a labor party. A groundswell of interest in the last two months doubled the turn-out convention...