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The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the North Carolina Growers Association (NCGA) signed in mid-September a historic contract covering 8,000 seasonal guest workers who travel each year from Mexico to work the fields of North Carolina...

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For many union members the presidential election season is known mostly for a few painfully predictable things: glossy magazine covers from the International featuring the candidate of choice; appeals for COPE money by local officers; repeat calls to come down to the union hall and pick up yard signs; speeches at whistle stops; and countless other familiar activities...

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The AFL-CIO has created an Independent Union Raiding Committee that will explore ways to stem the tide of workers decertifying AFL-CIO affiliates in favor of independent unions. According to the Bureau of National Affairs, the committee began its work “by looking at raiding by non-AFL-CIO unions” in the airline industry, but discovered that such campaigns are far more widespread...

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Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, is famous for having said that if he had his way, he would put his factories on barges and drag them around the world, in search of the lowest wages and least regulation. . . .

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With their contracts recently expired, hotel workers at three UNITE HERE locals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. voted to authorize a strike against a group of major hotel chains, including Hilton, Four Seasons, Hyatt, and Holiday Inn...

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Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) proposed by the Department of Labor and the Bush Administration went into effect August 23. In early September a bipartisan union-backed effort in the House of Representatives narrowly overturned the changes, but President Bush is expected to veto this attempt...