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Fifteen people were killed when a casino-bound bus crashed in the Bronx. Two months later a tour bus overturned in Virginia and killed four. Bus accidents kill about 50 passengers a year—and the biggest reason is driver fatigue. Drivers are exempt from federal overtime rules.

In the year since the Wisconsin uprising, outrage has been compressed into a single word: recall. But some are discussing what next, if the recalls are successful. Will they be enough to take Wisconsin forward?

A Brazilian General Motors worker, Teodoro Antonio Pereira, was killed in late March while moving a die. Pereira was working Saturday overtime and working alone on a two-person job. To protest his death, on the next work day his co-workers shut down production for two hours for an in-plant...

In a post-recall world, will a Democratic governor willingly surrender the flexibility and power over state employees that Scott Walker has gifted her with? Unions need a presence in the workplace that can't be ignored.

Seven months after last August’s bitter Verizon strike, the company's attack continues relentlessly. Hundreds of layoffs in New Jersey are underway as union leaders and rank-and-file rabble-rousers debate how to regain leverage.

New York's governor has led an assault on state employees, spearheading a recent drive for a pension cut. A new caucus inside an influential public sector union is determined to roll back the attacks and re-energize the union.

Workers in the nation’s sprawling distribution network hold enormous potential power. Today warehouse workers are organizing in three hubs: the “Inland Empire” east of LA, a giant complex near Chicago, and the centers along the Jersey Turnpike.