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These have been odd debates going on in the AFL-CIO.

To begin with, many of the debaters are reformers, or claim to be, even though some of them are top union officials—people with significant power in the largest U.S. unions. The terms we use to describe unions get an extra stretching...

A coalition of militant, reform-minded teacher unionists swept March 2 local elections for the United Teachers-Los Angeles (UTLA/AFT)—the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union local. The election marked the first time in UTLA’s 35-year history that the incumbent officers were turned out of...

These have been odd debates going on in the AFL-CIO.

What do the coming changes in the AFL-CIO mean for the health and safety of workers?

An AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting doesn’t normally make very exciting news, but the council’s next meeting — scheduled for March 1-3 — is shaping up to be a free-for-all . . . .

Editor's Note: Dave Brown has been a setup operator and machinist in Greenville, North Carolina, for over 18 years. He works for Bosch (formerly known as Vermont American), one the world's biggest tool manufacturer. Together with about 200 co-workers he produces standard precision tools, such...

You know we’ve hit a new low when sweatshop workers are sad to see their jobs go. But in an unexpected, and possibly nightmarish, collision of global free trade policies, that’s what workers in developing countries with emerging garment industries, ranging from Bangladesh and Cambodia to Mexico...