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Rank and file activists at the big Continental Tire plant in Mt. Vernon, Illinois haven’t given up their dream of organizing a union...

A little over 19 years ago, a chemical leak from the Union Carbide pesticide factory left over 8,000 people dead. The struggle of Bhopali workers for a just resolution, however, is far from over...

The UAW International has entered into an agreement with a fast-growing auto parts maker, Metaldyne, to remain neutral in union organizing drives...

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...