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Does your boss suddenly care about your health? "Wellness" programs, which are proliferating as employers try to cut costs by making workers participate or pay, have become one of the issues in the Chicago teachers strike.

As Chicago teachers prepare to strike Monday, unionists say it's a “which side are you on?” moment for Democrats. From the looks of this week's convention, it would seem the Dems have already chosen.

Injured Colombian GM worker Jorge Parra came to Detroit last night to continue his hunger strike at GM’s corporate doorstep. Efforts at mediation failed, and workers in Bogota have sewn their lips closed again.

The prospects for labor law reform may seem laughably remote this Labor Day. All the more reason to rethink strategy now, before the next chance. After 60 years of law tilted toward employers, it’s time to make labor organizing a civil right.

An Indian auto plant wracked by violence reopened, but barred almost all 2,500 full-time and casual workers. The union and community allies are protesting, calling on Suzuki to reinstate fired workers and release jailed union activists.

Union organizers have heard all the myths about unions. “They’re bankrupting us and destroying the economy.” “Unions are corrupt and mobbed up.” Bill Fletcher busts 21 such myths and explores where we have to go succinctly and superbly.