Unions

A crew of nine marijuana legalization canvassers walked off their jobs and into the Portland office of the Industrial Workers of the World looking to form a union.

The goal of the union cooperative is 100 percent worker-ownership, with each worker purchasing and owning an equal share.

In New York or Illinois or anywhere else in the country, working people have few champions in the smoked-filled rooms of politics.

Over the past four decades, women have played increasingly important roles as breadwinners in their families. At the same time, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has …

A bevy of venture capitalists, charter investors and Obama administration officials invested in the education reform agenda materialize as part of the swirling, multimillion-dollar brew of the Vergara lawsuit..

Target Corporation changes course to implement workers' rights policy in contracted cleaning at stores after four years of CTUL organizing

In much the same way that vouchers and charters have been sold via civil rights language, so too was Vergara v. California argued in court and marketed to the …

The first housekeeper elected to the city council in Providence, Rhode Island may be the voice needed to push local officials to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers.

The real movers and shakers in any struggle to transform the labor movement are the working members.

We asked four experienced staffers how they see their jobs and how they translate the idea that the members run the union into their day-to-day tasks.