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The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago reached an agreement with school administrators that union negotiators said met members' demands.

Healthy unions should welcome workplace discontent. Stewards can turn discontent into campaigns that build workplace power. Sometimes, though, too much unproductive discontent is floating around. What's a steward to do?

Everyone wants to “be his own boss,” right? But when a real boss says you're an independent contractor, often it’s to steal wages and cheat on taxes. Worker centers are striking back as lawmakers look to haul in tax-shirking employers.

Twenty-six leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) are in a San Francisco court facing bogus charges made by the Service Employees International Union. The real reason they’re in front of a judge and jury is that growing numbers of unhappy SEIU members are leaving SEIU to...

What a disappointment was last week’s This American Life. This episode of the popular one-hour show on public radio was a snapshot of how the auto industry could have been saved—if only executives had learned from the innovations pioneered at the NUMMI plant in California, a joint Toyota-GM...

For eight months 3,000 Steelworkers have been on strike at Vale Inco mines in Ontario, standing against a crush of concessions. They rejected an insulting settlement offer by 87 percent in mid-March.