Union organizing could suffer a devastating blow by the U.S. Supreme Court this term. In November, justices hear a case on labor-management “neutrality pacts” — agreements...
Barack Obama’s nomination of Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary was a poke in the eye of the American labor movement. The niece of the founder of...
Ask Los Angeles Times reporter Alana Semuels why union membership in California rose by 100,000 in 2012 and she’ll give you a simple answer: “Latino workers.”...
Expect scuffles between Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats over the governor’s budget blueprint. California’s social services have certainly been cut to the bone during the recession....
California’s second-largest city has a progressive mayor, former Democratic U.S. House member Bob Filner — who beat his Republican rival by three points in November. The...
I wrote this post for The Stansbury Forum, a site honoring the work and spirit of union activist, writer, friend and mentor Jeff Stansbury, who died in 2008....
With large-scale domestic manufacturing off-shored and de-unionized, Hollywood film and television production may now be the most heavily unionized private-sector industry in the American economy. I...
This 2012 newspaper headline wishlist first appeared on the Labor Lou blog. 1) Gingrich Sews Up Nomination Former House speaker...
The American labor movement needs a jolt and Joe Burns’ new book, Reviving the Strike, delivers just the right shock treatment. Debunking commonly held assumptions about...