Labor

  • The CTU sets a strike date

    Faced with school officials' refusal to budge on key issues, the Chicago Teachers Union has filed a 10-day strike notice.

  • Occupying a union-buster

    Protesters took over a Hot & Crusty restaurant in midtown Manhattan to prevent owners from breaking a newly formed union.

  • Janitors back down bosses

    After a month-long strike, Houston janitors have forced employers--in a right-to-work state, no less--to make concessions.

  • Chicago teachers draw a line

    The fate of public education across the U.S. will be shaped by the looming battle between the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

  • The CTU steps up the fight

    Informational pickets have begun at early-start schools as Chicago teachers take another step toward preparing for a strike.

  • A struggle put on hold?

    A year after a spirited but inconclusive strike, union leaders are failing to mobilize despite Verizon's aggressive demands.

  • Constructing concessions

    New York's building trades unions are focused on concessions, instead of organizing unorganized construction workers.

  • Far from a "very good" deal

    Leaders of the union at New York City's Con Ed are recommending a tentative agreement despite several concessions.

  • A leopard in the grass

    Autoworkers are facing a three-headed monster: the company, the government and the union bureaucracy.

  • Janitors' struggle heats up

    The struggle of thousands of Houston janitors for a fair contract and a living wage has escalated into a citywide strike.

  • Could the union have won more at Con Ed?

    A tentative agreement at the New York City utility gives up more concessions than many union members feel were necessary.

  • NALC leaders face convention challenge

    A group of union militants pressed a discussion about defending postal jobs at the NALC convention in Minneapolis.

  • Rahm blinks first in battle with teachers

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has bowed to teachers' demands to hire staff for a longer school day, but the fight continues over other issues.

  • Standing with the teachers

    Members of the Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign understand that the union is fighting for more than salaries.

  • Can the AFT meet the challenge?

    With a possible teachers' strike in Chicago coming amid unprecedented attacks on public education, will AFT leaders break from their strategy of "partnership"?

  • Wayne State targets tenure

    A corporate boss-turned-university president wants to eliminate tenure at a major public university in Michigan.

  • Rallying to support GEO

    The Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign organized a campus rally asking for solidarity.

  • A labor alliance in health care

    Leaders of the International Association of Machinists and National Union of Healthcare Workers talk about their affiliation to organize the unorganized.

  • Con Ed workers need support

    New York City's highly profitable electrical utility has locked out 8,500 workers--and is out to break their union.

  • High stakes at Davis Wire

    Workers at Davis Wire are on strike at a company that wants to double their health care premiums--while they endure terrible injury rates.

  • Rahm's school budget assault

    The proposed budget for the Chicago Public Schools takes aim at teachers while starving schools of resources.

  • Solidarity from Cairo to NYC

    An independent union in Egypt has declared its solidarity with locked-out workers at Con Ed in New York City.

  • Houston janitors battle corporate power

    Some 3,000 janitors in Houston are using rolling strikes in their fight to win a living wage from the employers.

  • The battle heats up at Con Ed

    New York City's electricity provider locked out 8,500 workers during a scorching heat wave when the union refused to buckle and accept concessions.

  • Columbus bus drivers' stand

    Bus service in Columbus, Ohio, has ground to a halt as drivers and mechanics demand a better contract--in defiance of city officials and their scapegoating.