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More than 1,000 nurses at Kaiser-Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center walked off the job Wednesday over staffing levels they say threaten patient care. The nurses—members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers—say Kaiser is stalling contract talks and refusing to improve nurse to...

Wisconsin's Governor Walker insists he needs to strip state employees of their right to negotiate as a means of cutting costs. And the media dutifully repeat that language, never questioning whether it’s accurate, despite abundant evidence that it is not.

Around the country union members have been inspired to go to Madison to join the protests and to organize solidarity actions back home. Here are a few reports of what they saw in Wisconsin and how they're bringing the spirit back. Note: you could try this at home.

Exactly 1,926 pink slips will soon make their way to the homes of Providence’s public school teachers. That’s one termination notice for every teacher in the system. Providence's teachers union has been one of the foremost advocates of the “collaborative” approach to labor-management relations...

Thousands crowded in front of the New Jersey Capitol in a freezing rain Friday to lend their solidarity to the occupation continuing in Wisconsin's statehouse. A teacher union leader said all labor is uniting to reject the "middle-class civil war" right-wing forces are trying to engineer

As the world watched the jubilant crowds in Tahrir Square, few were aware that another hard-won victory for justice and democracy was in the making in Puerto Rico, half a world away. Students occupying their campus since December to protest a "special fee" forced the resignation of the...