Big Labor’s top legislative priority, a bill creating an easier way to organize workers, is essentially dead – and its own members were instrumental in killing it. The victory of Republican Scott Brown’s in last week’s Massachusetts Senate special election that deprived Democrats of a filibuster-proof majority is not only bad news [...]

Comrade Obama has no better friends than the SEIU, an exceptionally thuggish union that spent $27 million on his campaign. SEIU’s top commie Andy Stern has visited the White House more than any other person since the debacle known as the Obamination Administration began to unfold. Yet even the SEIU may oppose ObamaCare, now that [...]

As Bank of America continues its search for a new CEO, one of the nation’s most powerful unions is giving it some unsolicited help: Since last week, the Service Employees International Union has been running online ads announcing a CEO vacancy at a “big bank” that may “reward failure with big $” and does not [...]

Acme supermarket cashiers and clerks said they will strike Friday night if negotiators fail to come to an agreement on health-care benefits, a report in the Times of Trenton said. The West Berlin-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1360 represents 2,400 employees at 30 stores in Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties in [...]

Should the San Francisco hotel union labor dispute get more heated, Oakland may not prove a safe haven for visitors seeking a neutral place to stay. On Nov. 19, over 400 members of Unite Here Local 2850 plan to march from the Oakland Downtown Marriott to Frank Ogawa Plaza and ending up at 22nd Street and [...]

Hotel workers at the Westin St. Francis walked off the job this morning, announcing the third three-day strike at a San Francisco hotel in as many weeks. Approximately 650 workers are participating in the strike, which began at 4:00 a.m. Wednesday, and will last until the first shift on Saturday morning. [Read More...]

American Airlines flight attendants, concerned about stalled contract negotiations, are going public with their gripes. The group is launching mock strikes across the country, and Wednesday it landed at RDU. No flights were interrupted. [Read More...]

Union officials in the United States are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. Leaders at the Communications Workers of America said Wednesday that the new arrangement with German union ver.di will help show a “double standard” between how European companies treat workers in their home [...]

United Airlines flight attendant members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA-CWA) will join members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) at American Airlines on the picket line at airports around the country tomorrow. While American Flight Attendants conduct a mock strike and walk the picket line, United Flight Attendants will join [...]

The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A., has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories. Until now. [Read More...]