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Until July, it seemed that the United Farm Workers union was on the verge of a breakthrough in its campaign to organize California's strawberry workers. A heated three-year campaign had met with significant successes, including a neutrality agreement with Coastal Berry, the largest strawberry...

"It’s something we don’t dare touch with a ten-foot pole," declared the legislative director for a national union. "This is a very sensitive, ticklish thing."

What's sensitive and ticklish is AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's decision in June to remove his organizing director, Richard...

Edward Hanley, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, has agreed to resign July 31 as head of the 255,000-member union. Hanley's decision resulted from a Department of Justice probe into his financial dealings that grew out of a federally-imposed consent decree. The HERE...

After a hard-fought, very public, 18-month campaign for a union contract that protects nurses’ jobs and patients’ care, the California Nurses Association declared victory in late March. CNA leaders tentatively approved a settlement with the giant HMO Kaiser Permanente covering 7,500 nurses in...

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's visit to Mexico in January represented a landmark in U.S.-Mexican labor union relations and established a new direction in AFL-CIO foreign policy. While Sweeney met with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, the real news was his meetings with independent labor...

"No Justice, No Seats! No Justice, No Seats!" shouted the crowd standing in the driveway...

"Operation Jobs," the roundup of undocumented workers carried out in May by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), brought anger and frustration to union members and officials in Chicago. But it has also brought a concern to find ways to de-fend undocumented workers.