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Faced with a Republican onslaught whose impact could be deeper than that seen in Wisconsin and Ohio, Michigan teachers are voting whether to authorize job actions. Their union seeks strike power to challenge the state's king-like "emergency managers."

Don Trementozzi had 25 years of experience in the labor movement as a rank-and-file activist and union official when he got a job at a Verizon call center in Worcester, Massachusetts and became a member of CWA Local 1400. The local has nearly 2,000 members working at 12 call centers in four New...

Chanting “we are one!” thousands of activists across the nation marched on Monday—the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Longshore workers in the ILWU shut down the Port of Oakland in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the public sector, and students...

As public workers from Wisconsin to Idaho face legislative efforts to eliminate dues check-off rights, how we fund and sustain our organizations has become a central question. Here in the right to work South, where public employees have never had the right to bargain collectively, we struggle...

OSHA's head comes from a union background, as does his right-hand man. The Labor Department's Hilda Solis was hailed as the “next Frances Perkins.” How can so many good appointees apparently display so little power over worker health and safety?