Jane Carter, of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employee (AFSCME), addressed the 2013 UNISON conference in Liverpool...

An anti-union ruling by the US Supreme Court on the status of home care workers has led to much reflection on the future of public service u...

The Economist’s revelation that America lost up to $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse comes on top of research showing just ho...

Much glee is in evidence on the Republican right over the ballot result on union recognition in the VW plant in Tennessee. There the United ...

Union activists all over the world should read this account of the life of Shonda Roberts who works for KFC in San Jose, California. She liv...

The New York Times asks whether the Europeans want the US deregulation economy, with tiny unions and no legal minimums of any note. It is a ...

This week’s US Congress budget blocking tactics by right wing Republicans to defund the Affordable Care Act has led to a partial government ...

This year we had the welcome news that unions are growing again in the UK. Despite having been subject to austerity, some of the most dracon...

The SEIU has produced a video to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington - best known for the "I Have a Dream" s...

In recent decades the tide of opinion has been that strikes are bad for unions. That strikes bring them bad publicity, that it shows unions ...

The small rise in membership in 2012 gave some cheer to the British trade union movement although the 2.6m trade unionists in the private se...

Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell University reviews the prospects for US unions following the Presidential election and calls for labour movem...

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, a progressive global network linked to Germany's Left Party, has published a report on how the US trade uni...

Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last autumn 'set the labor movement abuzz and gained new res...

An economics primer written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An eight minute video about how we arrived...

Amongst the news reports on Jimmy Saville's serial sex crimes, the Royal rush to hospital with morning sickness and the continued denigr...

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry has hailed the re-election of Barack Obama as a 'victory for working people, whose voices were heard despi...

Given that political elites and the main political parties in the US (and across the western world) accept the neoliberal paradigm of market...

The Texas Observer and SEIU report on a tremendous success for Janitors in Houston, Texas, a State where the legal and free market environme...

Americans for Tax Reform is the powerful right wing lobby upon which the UK’s Taxpayers’ Alliance is modelled. Its President Grover Norquist...