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Portland’s new day labor center opened in June to a hectic scene. Laborers and members of the media crowded around the site, a modest trailer in a city-owned parking lot. . . .

California may become the latest of several states to put restrictions on an online system that attempts to verify whether a job applicant can work in the U.S. Unions and immigrants’ rights groups—including the Service Employees and the California Immigrant Policy Center—are sponsoring a bill...

In the David and Goliath match-up between the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the fast food industry, the little guy has tripped up the giant again. . . .

The first contract signed June 4 at the Hilton Hotel in Glendale, California is nothing to sneeze at these days—modest raises, health care costs cut in half, and relief from a crushing workload. But its significance for hotel workers struggling to lift standards nationwide is even greater. In...

In my 20 years as a mechanic at United Airlines the issue of “raiding” has been tossed around as a smear and provocation by the incumbent union. . . .

In one of the most dangerous industries in America, injury rates were cut in half in one year. Is this possible? Only if you bear in mind the saying that “figures can lie and liars can figure.” . . .