All Articles

On a balmy late May evening in Oaxaca, Mexico, tourists sipped and supped at the sidewalk tables ringing the zocalo, or main plaza. Vendors hawked their wares from small tables and roamed the square with bouquets of inflatable superheroes and rainbow plastic hearts...

The September 11 World Trade Center attacks and the ongoing economic recession have left large segments of New York’s low wage and largely immigrant restaurant industry workforce devastated.

Health care isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. At least it seems that way right now, as workers in every industry are struggling to maintain their benefits in the face of rising premiums and diminished services...

Nearly two years have passed since the jailings of 228 striking teachers in Middletown, New Jersey in December 2001. Virtually every member of the New Jersey Education Association was touched by the sight of teachers in handcuffs on the steps of the Freehold Courthouse.

"It was at times almost like in a civil war," commented Klaus-Dieter Utoff, an IG Metall union representative from Chemnitz, East Germany. Utoff was not alluding to Cold War hostilities between the two formerly-divided German republics; but rather, to the four-week IG Metall strike over the...

One of the most perplexing yet little observed phenomena of the past century has been the relentless decline of the so-called “labor press.” Once a widely adopted tool for reaching unorganized workers with the union gospel and for communicating within union ranks, the labor press today is at...

The AFL-CIO says the Department of Labor’s proposed new requirements, which call for far more detailed accounting of union finances, are excessively burdensome. They claim these regulations are the product of an anti-union, anti-worker Republican administration that wants to undermine the...