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With premium costs rising by an average of 12%, bargaining over health care costs has become as difficult as it was during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when insurance premiums skyrocketed by similar amounts. Nearly all employees and retirees in the United States are being asked to pay more...

Budget deficits have appeared all over the country. Most states and many large cities appear to be in the red. Most of these figures are probably real and not like the case of the Metropolitan Transit Authority that runs New York City’s transit system...

The United Auto Workers are backing a bill that would allow blue-collar companies to pay less into their pension funds than those which employ mostly white-collar workers. The reason? Blue-collar workers tend to die younger...

Over 120 students in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), many of whom are graduating this year, have signed a Graduation Pledge for Worker Rights...

There is a war going on - a War against Workers - a war fought against workers on every front, in every country, every factory, every depot, dock, and mine. Call it Lean. Call it Modular. Or just old fashion Time Study Taylorism. It all boils down to one thing - control...

Just a few short days after the United States launched its invasion of Iraq, United Airlines announced that 2,000 flight attendants, 1,148 mechanics, and thousands more non-union salaried employees would be forced to take time off with no pay as a direct result of the war.

Some dockworkers on both coasts have been working double shifts, often in back-breaking jobs, due to the war in Iraq......