Labor unions must give nonmember workers "fresh notice" of unplanned increases in fees or assessments -- money that might be used for political purposes -- the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Some 22,000 commercial office cleaners in New York could go on strike once 2012 begins, a union representing them said.
Dozens of protesters staged sit-ins in front of lawmakers' offices Tuesday and several hundred more camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself Take Back the Capitol.
Raucous protesters unhappy with proposed cuts in state-funded health services in Washington state took their case to the governor's office, where 17 were arrested Thursday, officials said.
Protesters upset over state budget cuts fill the Washington state Capitol.
For many in labor unions, the political battles in Wisconsin, Ohio and now Indiana are seen as nothing short of a frontal assault on their very existence.
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest-whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. Then there are the ones that show up on your curb--literally.
Democratic legislators in 40 Congressional districts are about to see TV ads thanking them for their support of the health care reform bill the president signed into law Tuesday, Democratic officials told CNN.
One of the the country's most powerful unions stepped up its campaign for a hotly disputed labor bill Monday, holding a rally on the eve of the bill's formal introduction in Congress.
Union workers armed with an estimated 1.5 million signatures converged on Washington on Wednesday, demanding that Congress pass their highest-priority legislation.
A proposed law to let employees openly ask to organize has one company and a union at odds. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
The head of America's fastest-growing labor organization tells newly elected office-holders: Live up to your promises or face the wrath, and the money, of labor next time round.
Barack Obama comes to Washington carrying a load of hopes and dreams, none more ardent than organized labor's. Item No. 1 on the AFL-CIO's legislative agenda: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), also known as the card-check bill. Simply put, EFCA would streamline the process by which employees could decide to join a union. In most cases, a simple majority of signed cards would suffice; no need for a full-blown election sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board.
The powerful Service Employees International Union has decided that, because of the $700 billion financial-system bailout, it wants to organize bank workers.
Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday picked up endorsements from two key unions in Nevada, moves that could give the Illinois Democrat a significant leg up over rival Hillary Clinton in the state's caucuses next week.
Score one for Sen. Hillary Clinton and score one for John Edwards. Both Democratic presidential candidates picked up major union endorsements Wednesday.
Anna Burger reaches into her bag, pulls out a file and offers up the numbers: 8 out of 10 Americans think corporations' profits only benefit the top earners, that companies are too focused on the short term, that their actions contribute to driving down wages.
John Edwards has worked hard for union support, but this year labor may be cautious about an endorsement
Private equity, already in the crosshairs of Congress and threatened by deteriorating debt markets, faces a new challenge: a public awareness campaign by organized labor.
The revival of the Senate's immigration legislation also resurrected a rare split inside organized labor
As baby boomers reach retirement, an unsettling issue grows ever more pressing: finding the work force to tend to the millions of boomers who will someday need ongoing care because of physical and mental frailties
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Writer Barbara Ehrenreich may be best known for chronicling the troubles of low-wage earners in her 2002 bestseller "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America."
Lawmakers will take a closer look at the exclusive world of private equity on Wednesday, with a focus on the effect that buyouts can have on companies and on workers.
Amid all the criticism of private equity, none perhaps has been as scathing as this: Buyout firms above all want to enrich themselves and their investors - and often cut thousands of jobs in the process.
JPMorgan Chase & Co said it was reviewing its security procedures after a video posted online showed someone holding various documents found in trash cans containing customers' personal information.
In a partnership of unlikely allies, Wal-Mart's CEO, other corporate leaders and the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called Wednesday for universal health care coverage for all Americans by 2012.
In a sunlit office overlooking Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., union leader Andrew Stern, 55, is sipping coffee and holding a midmorning meeting with a few top aides. The subject is a study on t...
Card check. Sounds like a new party game or what happens when you've maxed out your credit. But that phrase is about to acquire a whole new meaning - as shorthand for the biggest, bitterest labor-business fight in Washington.
We've reached the balmy days of August, but for a growing number of workers chained to their jobs, it might as well be January.
Four union pension funds have sued the directors of Hewlett-Packard alleging that the severance package the company paid to ousted CEO Carly Fiorina last year -- which the suit values at between $21.4 million and $42 million -- greatly exceeded the maximum allowed under a board policy adopted in 2003.
The Transport Workers Union's executive board voted Tuesday night in favor of a new contract with the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City, union president Roger Toussaint announced.
At first glance, the numbers don't look good for organized labor. In the 1960s, unions represented a third of U.S. workers. Today total involvement is about 17 million out of a workforce of 142 mil...
Another large union decided to leave the AFL-CIO Friday, widening a rift that has cost the labor federation more than a third of its members in the past week.
The bolt in Chicago Monday from the AFL-CIO by the Teamsters and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reflects a long-building reaction to John Sweeney's plans a decade ago when he muscled his way into the labor federation presidency.
The Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union voted Monday to withdraw from the AFL-CIO.
President Bush's compassion tour takes him to a Baptist church in Philly today, where he talks about (quoting here) "Compassion and HIV/AIDS." Bush's 10:25 a.m. ET speech at the Greater Baptist Exodus Church, a largely black congregation, comes as he simultaneously tends to his must-win conservative base this week with a stepped-up call to ban same-sex marriage.
John Edwards emerges today as the co-winner of the Wisconsin primary, aided by independents and late-deciding voters. Sure, John Kerry won more votes, but Edwards has finally achieved his longtime quest for a two-man race -- just in time for suddenly relevant Super Tuesday.
John Kerry's big momentum is carrying him into what's expected to be a strong showing this weekend. But so far it hasn't generated a new wave of support from Capitol Hill, or the backing of two unions that could really help him in the days ahead.
Back in 1996, around the time Bill Clinton was cruising toward reelection against Bob Dole, I had a conversation with Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the pathetic state of America's unions. Reic...
Imagine pulling up to an emergency room with a wailing child only to find the doctors outside, marching on a picket line. That's the image managed-care officials want you to focus on as they fight ...
That's John Sweeney, standing outside a tire factory in Des Moines, oddly formal in his signature black suit. It's 5:30 in the morning. A bright half-moon shines down on first-shift workers going i...
You can't blame Douglas Fraser for getting a little excited. "When was the last time anyone from Fortune called about the labor movement?" says the former United Auto Workers president, now teachin...
Now that baby-boomers outnumber their elders in the work force and in unions, the feisty striplings are questioning some of the most revered tenets of organized labor: seniority rules. In a dramati...
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