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Un millier d'employés grévistes, ignorant les fonctionnaires de police d'Oakland, ont dansé sur les quatre voies d'une rue du centre-ville au son de "We are Family" et de "Respect" d'Aretha Franklin. Ces chansons ont bien résumé ce que nous nous étions enseigné, nous, le personnel, les...

Power in the workplace itself. That is the underlying issue in the West Coast longshore struggle and facing most other unions across the world. Unfortunately, unions don’t like to talk about their members having power; they fear that power plays negatively in the media, so they paint a...

In the 1980 Presidential debates, Ronald Reagan asked the memorable question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Over twenty years later, and almost two years into the term of President George W. Bush, this question is still relevant. An analysis of current indicators of the...

Immediately after the events of September 11 many American union leaders and workers lined up in favor of a war on terrorism. Support for war remained fairly high across the board as U.S. forces entered into a quick military campaign in Afghanistan...

Since 1996 the leadership of the AFL-CIO, and of a few important unions, have put as many of labor’s eggs as they could in the basket of organizing the unorganized. John Sweeney says labor needs to organize a million workers a year just to tread water, and that growth is our top priority......

Last summer, 430 mostly women African-American, Latino, Haitian, and African immigrant workers at Chrill, a non-profit homecare agency in Newark, decided that $6.50 was not enough and that they wanted health benefits and respect. They began organizing a union with AFSCME...

Three days past a strike deadline, with workers ready to walk, members of HERE Locals 1 and 450 won a new contract with Chicago hotels. The new pact represents not only a victory on wages and benefits, which for years have lagged behind those of hotel workers in other large cities. It also...