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CSX, the third-largest railroad in the U.S., released a new attendance policy last month that trumps various union contracts. The vague and unsafe blanket policy says workers are not allowed to mark off sick for more than two days in a rolling 30-day period, regardless of work schedule or job...

After 114 days on the picket line, strikers at the Mott’s plant outside Rochester, New York, voted September 13 to accept the company’s contract offer. Workers, who produce applesauce and juice for Mott’s parent company Dr. Pepper-Snapple, returned to work the following week. The vote was 185...

Are there more of us than there are of the Tea Party? The One Nation Working Together rally in Washington October 2 is the union movement’s answer to the Tea Party-Glenn Beck types, says Steve Kramer, a vice president in the union that launched the idea. 1199SEIU, the East Coast health care...

Steelworkers who produce nuclear-power fuel were locked out in June by the Honeywell corporation. Now scabs are doing the dangerous, specialized work.

After football players raised an index finger (“one” for unity) in a brief pre-game gesture of union solidarity on the season’s opening day, we hear that ESPN radio says 99 percent of the calls and emails ESPN got were critical of the players. A startling revelation indeed: who would have...

Hundreds turned out to protest the Los Angeles Times for the public flogging the Times has rendered to scores of dedicated LA teachers, rating individual teachers on a discredited “effectiveness” scale based on test scores.