unions

Artists and screen actors take steps toward merging unions

May 17, 2011 By Blake Skylar

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild took a step toward merging when AFTRA's board of directors met today by videoconference in Los Angeles and New York.

Unemployment insurance under attack

May 17, 2011 By Art Perlo

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and in a number of states are out to kill, or at least cripple, unemployment insurance.

Machinists, labor board official say Boeing broke law

May 16, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Machinist workers are gathering allies as the battle grows over a top NLRB official's statement that Boeing broke labor law by moving aircraft production to anti-union South Carolina.

The battles that must be won

May 16, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

Re-electing Obama in 2012, preserving unions and public services, defeating racism, advocating for LGBT rights, fighting for a massive jobs program and ending the wars overseas are must win battles.

Who’s IKEA gonna call? Union busters!

May 12, 2011 By John Wojcik

While IKEA rails against unions as third-party outsiders, it already brought in its own third party, Jackson Lewis, the "mother" of all union-busters.