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Caterpillar announced Friday it would close its London, Ontario, locomotive plant after 465 workers there refused to grant concessions that would cut their wages in half. Cat will ship the jobs to a non-union plant in Indiana.

As Indiana becomes the nation’s 23rd right-to-work state, unionists and Occupiers are considering what actions to take as the nation’s attention focuses on the NFL championship in Indianapolis.

Connecticut nursing home workers are making it personal for a scofflaw employer who’s locked them out of their jobs, seeking big takeaways. Members of Service Employees 1199 protested at the "institute for justice" their boss founded.

After workers at an Inland Empire warehouse began organizing, their company was fined for breaking the law. But now Walmart's contractor is ending their jobs—and the workers are calling it retaliation.

President Obama blew a kiss to Apple in his State of the Union speech. The timing couldn’t be weirder: Reports on its abysmal factory conditions in China are rampant, causing Apple to partner with Nike's favorite monitoring group. Is that a step forward?

Conflict is looming over a grain exporter's attempt to use scab labor to load a freighter in Longview, Washington. Occupiers and Longshore unionists vow to protest and expect a heavily armed police presence. Their own friction is adding difficulties, however.

After seeing hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate in Wisconsin and Ohio to defend collective bargaining, it seems odd to read in Labor Notes that union contracts are “a trap” that “hold unions back.”

Stanley Aronowitz’s January 2012 Viewpoint said, “Labor is confined by contract...