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Author(s):
Eric Lee and Derek Blackadder

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Most unions still do not fully exploit the Internet. The vast majority of U.S. union members have never received an email from their union. Chances are though that most union members are online in a big way—and they expect...

Korean metal workers are on the front lines in the fight against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the South Korean and U.S. governments. Protesting the agreement, which was signed on June 30, about 110,000 Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) members in 157 locals across the county...

The Service Employees International Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, and community organizations have announced a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of immigrant airport screeners. They are charging the federal government with violating the immigrant screeners’ rights to due process...

Author(s):
David Cohen

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The retirement system in our country is under attack. Everyday we hear of large corporations terminating their defined benefit pension plans and replacing them with 401k or other defined contribution plans that will provide employees with a lower...

Following months of criticism and sharp internal debate, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ended its controversial partnership agreement with a group of California nursing homes on May 31. The four-and-a-half-year-old deal was a quid pro quo arrangement that brought over 3,000...

Author(s):
John Braxton, Karen Schermerhorn

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Can strikes work for public employee unions in 2007, when public treasuries are stretched thin? The 1,300 faculty and staff at Community College of Philadelphia answered that question with a clear “Yes!” in a recent two-week...

Dues are the bricks and mortar of our labor movement, but in many unions dues are a taboo subject. From per capita taxes to initiation fees and special assessments, rank-and-file members rarely get a full picture of their own union’s dues structure, much less a sense of what’s happening across...