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Four hundred members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee surrounded the National Labor Relations Board regional office in Los Angeles on October 5 in a protest against the board’s Kentucky River ruling. The ruling may bar up to eight million workers from...

Workers at Consolidated Diesel Company (CDC) have a lot to celebrate this fall. On October 12, a superior court judge forced the company to pay 1,000 employees at its Whitakers, North Carolina plant more than $1 million in unpaid bonuses.

During union-building campaigns, labor activists sometimes get demoralized because so many of their co-workers are unresponsive. Many workers don’t seem to understand much about the union, don’t seem to care, and don’t get involved.

After a relatively quiet summer following this spring’s massive immigrant mobilizations, immigrant workers and their allies are once again mobilizing to demand just immigration legislation. Activists took the streets nationally with protests held over Labor Day weekend, and more held September...

With a roar of applause and chants of "no contract, no work," thousands of Detroit teachers voted August 27 to walk picket lines rather than swallow $88 million in concessions...

Author(s):
Erik Larsen

Excerpt:

I ran for office to make changes in my union, the Municipal Employees Federation (MEF), one of 12 chapters that make up AFSCME Local 101 in Santa Clara County, California. I ran mainly because I was angry about 2005 contract negotiations, which...

Chicago’s city council passed a “Big Box Ordinance” on July 25 requiring large retailers (those with stores over 90,000 square feet) to pay their employees $10 an hour, plus another $3 an hour in benefits, by 2010...