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The outspokenness of Iraq’s Federation of Oil Unions against foreign military occupation and corporate incursions into the oil fields has gained it a lot of powerful enemies.

Since the 2003 U.S. invasion, it has been organizing workers in publicly owned oil fields into the nation’s...

In a development that has many in upstate New York’s labor community scratching their heads, workers at a chemical plant that mobilized for a year against wage cuts saw their new contract ratified despite voting against it.

Chicken processing workers stopped the line for an hour at the Case Farms plant in Morganton, North Carolina, over dangerous and abusive conditions. The remarkable wildcat action won the non-union and largely immigrant workforce several gains.

I can’t help but think that the folks behind the “America Speaks” town hall meetings, held June 26 in 19 cities across the country, were shell-shocked by the results. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and, principally, the foundation of Wall Street financier Peter Peterson...

A tentative agreement has been announced in one of the longest-running and bitter strikes in North America, among the 3,500 nickel and copper miners and mill workers of Steelworkers Locals 6500 and 6200 in Ontario. The Steelworkers union and mine operator Vale Inco are withholding details until...

The U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June knocked down 600 decisions by the National Labor Relations Board on the grounds that only two NLRB members lacked the authority needed to issue binding decisions. While pulling the rug out from under 600 decisions may seem cataclysmic, the bigger risk is that...