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Verizon fired 40 union members in December for picket-line activity. Aren’t members protected in legally sanctioned strikes? Not always. But unions can prevent firings for strike conduct by mounting massive and disciplined activity that doesn’t allow the boss to target a few troublemakers.

A South Korean Hyundai Motor worker set himself afire Sunday after management responded to his request to slow the pace of production by stepping up discipline. The 44-year-old unionist, Shin Sung-hun, is in critical condition.

New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.

Despite an anti-union hostility that could result in a right-to-work law, Indiana is seeing an unexpected alliance bloom in a hard winter strike: Occupy Bloomington is rallying to the union.

It’s been an exhilarating year, with people finally moving into resistance after decades of misrule. The new-found energy is rejuvenating, making it easy to forget that we haven’t won most of these battles yet. Still, we’re way ahead of where we were this time last year.

In the wake of the November Teamster election, top officials are calling for stripping members of their right to vote for president and international officers.

Just as the cherry blossoms fell from their trees as summer began in Washington, D.C., the 170,000 registered nurses who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, launched their Main Street Contract campaign.

Six months later, NNU’s campaign is resonating...