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On March 12, the news was dominated by President Bush’s statement of outrage that the US
Immigration and Naturalization Service had issued visas to two of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

On March 12, the news was dominated by President Bush’s statement of outrage that the US Immigration and Naturalization Service had issued visas to two of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...

Teamster convention delegates approved a 25 percent dues increase-from two hours’ pay per month to 2.5 hours-at a one-day Special Convention April 30 in Las Vegas. Teamster President James Hoffa had argued for the dues hike in order to increase strike benefits, boost organizing, and help local...

The legend in my family has it that my Grandpa Kelley was a rank and file organizer of some importance during the CIO upsurge of 1936-37, at his General Motors plant in La Grange, Illinois. He died before I went into the Army in 1969, so I never really got much of a chance to talk to him as a...

We are writing in response to Marty Jezer's online Labor Notes article Nuke Plant Wins by ‘Caring about the Community’. First, we want to acknowledge the good work that Marty has done. He has often used his time, energy, and writing to support expanding and strengthening workers' rights in...

While we certainly agree that labor must continue our coalition work on globalization, we have concerns with some of the views in Russ Davis’s April Viewpoint...

It’s “no comment” all over Washington these days, as union presidents wonder if enriching themselves as company board members may not have been such a hot idea after all...