Josh Eidelson (josheidelson.com) is a Nation contributor and was a union organizer for five years. He covers labor for as a contributing writer at Salon and In These Times.
A proposed regulatory change would extend some basic federal protections to long-excluded domestic workers.
The bill, requiring hourly compensation of $12.50, is a high-profile challenge to Walmart’s business model.
Port truckers in New Jersey and California are working with the Teamsters to organize—and they’re winning.
Workers allege serious safety issues, and retaliation for exposing them.
With unions in crisis, alternative labor groups have seen explosive growth. Without automatic dues deduction, how should they pay the bills?
Today's strike is designed to pressure the president to use his executive authority to raise labor standards for federal contracting.
Following a Facebook fortune-funded teacher bonus plan, Newark teachers elected an incumbent president who supports a recent “performance bonus’ for ‘peer review’ plan, and an executive board mostly opposed to it.
In an exclusive interview, Alan Grayson says retaliation is ‘pervasive,’ and ‘the law against it has become utterly impotent.’
Workers and supporters urged Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, a Walmart board member, to address the firing of eleven Walmart worker-activists.
Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen warns that without Labor Board confirmations, 'management can do whatever they want in terms of workers’ rights.'