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With the best of intentions, the International Labor Organization has launched “Better Work” programs in several countries in hopes of easing harsh conditions for long-suffering garment workers.

Unions at major airlines are pushing to regain lost ground. After multiple rounds of concessions and bankruptcies following 9/11, airline workers are working longer and harder for less.

Attacked daily as the biggest roadblock to improving public education, union teachers responded this fall, opening their own schools in two cities.

Student anti-sweatshop activists spurred a historic deal between a Honduran union and the largest exporter of T-shirts to the U.S. Russell will rehire 1,200 workers fired for unionizing, injecting hope into a movement eager for good news.

The sidewalk outside a restaurant in suburban Detroit was packed for the Friday night dinner rush—but it wasn't because the line was out the door. Restaurant workers and supporters were out front protesting a slew of minimum-wage violations, part of a national campaign against employers that...

Five 24-hour strikes in mid-October over speedup, harassment, and lost jobs brought down media and government accusations demonizing British postal workers for potentially denying the public “their Christmas.” Unnerved, postal union leaders cancelled further actions.