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Robert Schwartz

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When an employer begins to hire permanent replacements, the union must carefully evaluate its position. If the numbers of replacements are small, the union may be able to shrug off the hiring as a scare tactic. But if the employer appears...

After five months of struggle and violent repression, Local 22 of the Mexican Teachers Union and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca continue their fight to remove Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz. . .

While media coverage of this spring’s nationwide immigrant upsurge focused on dramatic marches and demonstrations, the upsurge was fueled by mass work stoppages in industries that employ a high percentage of immigrant workers.

The illegal business practices of a union-controlled bank, Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft (Bawag), have led to one of the most devastating corruption scandals in Austrian history.

This July’s Communications Workers of America (CWA) convention marked the first step towards reshaping the union for an offensive against corporate America.

Four hundred members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee surrounded the National Labor Relations Board regional office in Los Angeles on October 5 in a protest against the board’s Kentucky River ruling. The ruling may bar up to eight million workers from...

Workers at Consolidated Diesel Company (CDC) have a lot to celebrate this fall. On October 12, a superior court judge forced the company to pay 1,000 employees at its Whitakers, North Carolina plant more than $1 million in unpaid bonuses.