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Twenty-six leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) are in a San Francisco court facing bogus charges made by the Service Employees International Union. The real reason they’re in front of a judge and jury is that growing numbers of unhappy SEIU members are leaving SEIU to...

What a disappointment was last week’s This American Life. This episode of the popular one-hour show on public radio was a snapshot of how the auto industry could have been saved—if only executives had learned from the innovations pioneered at the NUMMI plant in California, a joint Toyota-GM...

For eight months 3,000 Steelworkers have been on strike at Vale Inco mines in Ontario, standing against a crush of concessions. They rejected an insulting settlement offer by 87 percent in mid-March.

A 48-day, 250-mile march across California is carrying the fight against the devastation of the state's K-12 schools and vaunted public colleges, once the gateway to opportunity for the working class, to cities and towns hit hard in the recession.

Two myths have surrounded Toyota’s rise to dominance in the global auto industry: (1) Toyota is about quality for the customer, and (2) Toyota’s quality and productivity are forged on respect for its workforce.

The version of health insurance legislation that passed the House of Representatives Sunday will affect workers in ways both obvious and not so obvious.