That form of rank-and-file empowerment is rare indeed, even in unions considered more progressive. As a result, organized labor was confronted, in the last three presidential election cycles, with ...

Although the headlines have died down, the assault on federal workers’ livelihoods and union rights has not let up. Nor has the attack on public service itself. Both are the culmination of a ...

Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of ...

Last Wednesday, a five-year contract between Rolls-Royce and the United Auto Workers (UAW) was ratified by 489 votes in favor and 205 votes against. The contract, drawn up by the UAW bureaucracy and ...

Teamsters for a Democratic Union, which will be celebrating the group’s fiftieth anniversary at its convention being held in Chicago this November 7 to 9, has for decades been known as the voice of ...

WASHINGTON – In October 2015, dozens of Republicans joined a minor revolt led by then-Rep. Denny Heck and the House’s Democratic minority to go around the GOP chairman of the Financial Services ...