Baltimore hospital workers strike for low-paid workers
The union's wage proposal would add 0.32 percent to Hopkins' $754 million payroll costs; in 2013, Hopkins reported a surplus of $145 million.
Colombian union leaders say killings continue
Three years after it was added as a side pact to the controversial U.S.-Colombia "free trade" pact, the Labor Action Plan designed to improve workers' lot and their rights is a failure.
NLRB ruling is groundbreaking win for college athletes
The Chicago regional chapter of the NLRB ruled that Northwestern University football players have the right to form a union if they desire.
Workers and patients fight back against hospital consolidation
Affordable, quality health care and secure, union jobs are both threatened by the growing consolidation and monopolization of the medical industry.
How much is that union boss in the window?
"Hello my name is is Miles, and according to the governor of New Mexico I am a big union boss."
SEIU's Henry: Unions need new approaches to attract youth
The nation's unions need new approaches to recruit and retain younger workers, Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry says.
Union leader calls Ryan budget a monster out to maul government workers
"What's another term for an insatiable monster hell-bent on savagely devouring everything in its sight? The Ryan Budget."
Management actions at New York transit unite workers
The situation at the Central Electronics shop of New York City Transit, under the yoke of a vicious anti-union management, has reached a boiling point.
Missouri workers fight anti-union legislation
"HB 1617 is a patronizing bill that doesn't treat state workers like adults, it treats them like children who don't know what they are doing when they sign an authorization card to join a union."
Students support successful union drive for campus workers
Cafeteria workers, angry at cuts made by management, approached Local 1000 in Grapevine, who sent organizers and the new leader of the Young Workers Council to the university.
