More than 20 years after he battled print labour unions at his Wapping newspaper plant, Rupert Murdoch hailed electronic reading devices as the death ...
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists t...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
For Ted Kennedy, for Crystal Lee Sutton, for us all, America ought to have the Employee Free Choice Act.
Bruce Raynor | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
Our nation lost a great hero and champion of working people. Crystal Lee Sutton was an inspiration to every worker who holds out hope and is prepared to fight for justice and respect at work.
Mike Elk | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
While the Administration is making some initially encouraging signs on trade, only over time will we know whether the Administration truly intends to pursue a policy of fair trade that leads to prosperity in all nations.
Jim Arkedis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The WTO's ruling late last week in a case involving Boeing and European arch-rival Airbus is a big and welcome victory that shows rule-based trade works.
Amy B. Dean | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Labor Day is a reminder of what workers can achieve when they organize: improved working conditions, fairness in the work place, holiday and vacation pay, health care and pensions.
The New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
...Today that euphoria is giving way to a mixture of frustration and unease, as union leaders are growing concerned that the Obama White House has not...
Bill Fletcher Jr. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The right to join or form labor unions is so central but so often overlooked precisely because it goes to central questions regarding power in so-called free market societies.
Tom Woodruff | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
To rebuild our economy, we must restore worker purchasing power by restoring worker bargaining power.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Workers need the chance to decide for themselves -- without being spied on, threatened, or fired -- whether to join a union. The Employee Free Choice Act would give them that chance.
Anna Burger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
With Labor Day rapidly approaching and the Congressional recess coming to an end, we are on the verge of witnessing some of the most critical debates in our nation's history, and the unions will be on the front lines.
Miami Herald | Toluse Olorunnipa | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
A 65-year-old man rallying in favor of healthcare reform was knocked to the ground by a man who disagreed with the call for a government-run health pl...
Art Levine | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The future now looks particularly bleak, especially if the "jobless recovery" continues at its relatively slow pace, and union organizing remains blocked by opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act.
The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company's wages, health care...
Dave Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
We are used to this kind of bad, antisocial, economically destructive behavior from self-interested American companies, organizations and people. And for some reason we seem to tolerate it.
Mike Elk | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Let's fight like hell for the public health insurance plan that Senator Kennedy so dearly fought for in the closing days of his life.
Mike Elk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The right wing is creating a climate of fear in which no logical argument can be made.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
Art Levine | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The story that isn't being told in cable media's over-reaction to the GOP mobs is that of reasonable Americans coming out to understand more about health care reform and promote change
Art Levine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
With Obama scheduled to promote health insurance reform at a town hall meeting, both the network of lobbyist-fueled "tea-party" activists and progressives are ramping up their organizing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Union officials continued to receive a barrage of threats on Friday evening and into Saturday punctuated by warnings that if organizers were sent to c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
One of the country's largest unions has been hit by a wave of hostile calls and even death threats from people upset with its involvement in town-hall...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town hall...
Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
It was as though the economic realities carried no resonance with these workers of the world. They failed to comprehend the most basic linkage between management's needs and their lives.
ft.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media