By Steve Wishnia

Voters in Illinois solidly approved amending the state’s constitution to protect the right to collective bargaining and the union shop, while Tennessee voted to embed its ban on the union shop in its constitution.

By Bob Hennelly

Courtesy of InsiderNJ

Friday, over 200 journalists with the NewsGuild CWA put their careers at risk by walking off their jobs as local reporters at Gannett owned newspapers at the Asbury Park Press and The Record as well as a dozen other news rooms around the country because the company refuses to bargain with their union in good faith.

By Steve Wishnia

This Nov. 8, voters in Illinois will consider amending the state’s constitution to protect the union shop, while Tennessee will consider adding the state’s law banning the union shop to its constitution.

By Joe Maniscalco

That’s for daddy’s work!

IBEW Local 3 apprentice Natalie Rivera returned home after her first day on the job as a union electrician still in her hardhat and hi-viz vest but the image just did not compute for her tiny two-year-old daughter.

By Joe Maniscalco

Threats to personal safety and underfunding are making it tough for cities all across the United States to attract new bus operators — but those same factors are hitting Canadian transit workers just as hard.

By Joe Maniscalco

With no shortage of expert analysis aimed at understanding the resurgence of union organizing across the country, the dancers at the only unionized strip club in the United States probably have the best: union organizing is on the rise because it has once again become “cool” and “sexy.”

By Joe Maniscalco

Vermont AFL-CIO leader David Van Deusen is sitting outside a tavern in Montpelier about to grab a beer when he starts talking about how important independent journalism is to the American Labor Movement.

By Joe Maniscalco

Frank Emspak has been making trouble for powerful elites his whole life. Sometimes as a pugnacious member of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers [UE], other times as executive producer of Workers Independent News (WINS). Now approaching 80, Frank Emspak is still mixing it up and making trouble — and he’s urging today’s generation of workers to do the same.

By Steve Wishnia

U.S. labor law is supposed to protect workers’ right to organize — but employers regularly evade it by exploiting the slow-moving system and its weak or nonexistent penalties for violations, leading labor lawyers say.

By Joe Maniscalco

Sacha Alvarez was barely six months into her new job driving the BX40 bus route in The Bronx for MTA New York City Transit when a crazed man swinging a foot-long tree branch burst onto her vehicle and started clubbing her on the head. The February attack understandably left her dubious about her future behind the wheel — but she’s not alone. Cities across the country are discovering hardly anyone wants to drive a bus anymore.