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Rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on July 14 requesting that their contract vote be annulled. The contract covers 15,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas...

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Reversing course for the fourth time in 30 years, in June the NLRB announced it would no longer protect the right of a non-union worker to refuse to participate in an investigatory interview without the assistance of a co-worker. The new case is IBM Corp...

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The recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board to take back Weingarten rights from non-union workers will have an impact on innovative new kinds of workplace organizing...

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Unrest is shaking the Canadian telecommunications industry from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, as management presides over sweeping changes in the industry...

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Workers in every industry, from trucking to telecommunications, know that there’s a health care crisis in the United States. Yet the AFL-CIO refuses to endorse the only proposal that can rein in health care inflation without damaging quality of care: a single-payer system. . . .

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Negotiations for Seattle-area grocery workers are at a critical crossroads. Contracts with Safeway, Albertsons, and Kroger-owned stores for 25,000 members of five United Food and Commercial Workers locals expired May 2. They have been extended several times, most recently through July 23...