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Highly profitable Verizon, the nation’s largest telecom firm, has ordered pre-Christmas job cuts for thousands of workers-setting the stage for a major confrontation during contract negotiations next summer. Unless a multitude of shop-floor, contractual, regulatory, public pressure, and street-...

The scandal at ULLICO is worrying some union officials concerned about John Sweeney’s ability to hold together an always-fragile unity among AFL-CIO affiliates. Said one former top-level union staffer, “The ruling coalition in the AFL-CIO has come apart.”

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To the editor:

On December 8, members of the Boston SEIU Local 615 janitors bargaining and contract action team came together to celebrate how far they had come and to celebrate their new contract. While the final contract did not reach all its initial goals, it represented a major step...

The 'Perfect Crime' From the Early Days of Taft-Hartley: The Holt Labor Library has found some old-fashioned cartoons and pamphlets from the California CIO around the time the anti-labor Taft-Hartley bill was passed in 1947. One pamphlet said, "Common pickpockets are frowned upon in decent...

Teamster nurses at the 265-bed Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey Michigan struck in November after frustration with the pace of negotiations toward their first contract. The nurses seek lower nurse-to-patient ratios, a greater say in patient care issues, improved grievance procedures, an...

10. "Social Security to be replaced by giant Bingo game -- brought to you by Wall Street."

In the latest skirmish in its battle against General Electric’s globalization strategy and destruction of members’ jobs, for four days in late October Local 201 of the International Electronic Workers-Communications Workers struck GE’s Lynn, Massachusetts plant, which makes engines for jet...