Nation Topics - Unions | The Nation

The heat is on big banks and CEOs as labor and community activists band together.

Disguised as health promotion, it’s another form of cost-shifting to employees, in which some will be unfairly penalized.

It’s time to tie worker rights to “Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall.”

To survive, unions need to be better neighbors.

Establishing lower pay for new hires, these agreements have undermined union solidarity by opening a gulf between generations.

New York City’s school bus drivers and aides do a tough job where experience matters.

Disguised by its billionaire backers as campaign finance reform, California’s Proposition 32 would destroy the political power of unions.

As Obama touts his education reforms and neoliberals face off with teachers, hardly anyone is talking about the real problems besetting America’s public schools.

As a hot summer rolls on and the lockout enters its third week, New York City unions ramp up the pressure. 

Days after being locked out, the utility company’s union workers show that they’re not going down without a fight.