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The 25th Biennial California State AFL-CIO Convention, held in July in San Diego, handed a rebuke to national-level foreign policy leaders of the AFL-CIO. By a unanimous decision, over 400 representatives of the state’s almost 2.5 million organized workers—approximately one-sixth of the AFL-...

Workers in every industry, from trucking to telecommunications, know that there’s a health care crisis in the United States. Yet the AFL-CIO refuses to endorse the only proposal that can rein in health care inflation without damaging quality of care: a single-payer system. . . .

Rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on July 14 requesting that their contract vote be annulled. The contract covers 15,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas...

Negotiations for Seattle-area grocery workers are at a critical crossroads. Contracts with Safeway, Albertsons, and Kroger-owned stores for 25,000 members of five United Food and Commercial Workers locals expired May 2. They have been extended several times, most recently through July 23......

The recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board to take back Weingarten rights from non-union workers will have an impact on innovative new kinds of workplace organizing...

After extracting massive concessions from the UAW last fall, auto parts maker Visteon woke up on May 30 with a strike on its hands at its Bedford, Indiana plant...

Victor Reuther died June 3. The youngest Reuther brother was a key organizer of the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-37 that helped found the United Auto Workers...