Thousands join picket lines at Kaiser Permanente’s California hospitals
Thousands of workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California marched on picket lines.
U.S. nurses backed general strike in U.K.
The National Nurses Union led a coalition of U.S. unions that demonstrated in six cities on Nov. 30 to back British public workers, who staged a one-day strike.
Paid sick days the law now in Seattle
Seattle's mayor signed the historic bill Friday. Every worker in the city, depending upon his or her conditions of employment, is now guaranteed five to nine sick days per year.
Thousands of California nurses strike to fight takeaways
The nurses were among 23,000 of their co-workers holding a one-day strike at three-dozen Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern and central California, as well as Oakland Children's Hospital.
West coast grocery talks down to the wire
Bargaining went down to the wire, with the latest session scheduled for today between the United Food and Commercial Workers locals that represent 62,000 Southern California grocery workers and their three grocery chain employers: Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons.
Locked out on the Great Lakes
The epidemic of corporate greed sweeping our nation is alive and well on the Great Lakes.
Verizon workers to take strike vote July 25 (video)
Verizon workers and retirees face the fight of their lives, as the profitable telecom corporation tries to take back every hard-earned benefit.
Nurses kick off economic education drive
National Nurses United says they will speak out about income and economic inequality and its impact on themselves and their patients - and get the rest of the country to do so, too.
Nurses score wins for unions and patients
Emphasizing that short-staffing harms patients, the National Nurses Union racked up a big contract win at the D.C. area's largest hospital, the Washington Hospital Center.
Wisconsin union battle moves to … Massachusetts?
The overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts state House passed a bill that would limit the right of public employees to collectively bargain for their health care.
