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When New York state made national news two years ago with a flap about driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, the state AFL-CIO supported the immigrants but wasn't out in front. Neither was another supporter, the Catholic Church.

But as chair of the Albany/Capital District...

Cabin crews at Delta, the largest airline in the world since its merger last year with Northwest, are preparing for their third union election in eight years. The result promises to shape the standards of work for flight attendants, and union supporters are banking on a new political appointee...

The recession numbers focus on the out of work, the nearly 10 percent of the workforce who are unemployed. Not counted in the stats of workplace misery are those still “lucky to have a job.” A Labor Notes survey this month found harassment in the workplace at unprecedented levels, with a sharp...

When was the last time you heard a union president denounce another union president—publicly? For labor’s upper echelon, the most scrupulously honored principle is protocol. (And you thought it was “solidarity.”)

But at the UNITE HERE convention in late June, the torrent of abuse heaped...