In contract negotiations this year covering union hotel workers in San Francisco and other major cities, a major theme will not be wages and benefits, but labor's strategy for organizing new members ...

Labor activists argue that secret ballot organizing elections are stacked against workers who want to join a union. Companies, they allege, systematically fire pro-union workers, threaten to shut down ...

Former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) has emerged as an unlikely ally of business groups looking to defeat legislation that would allow unions to bypass secret-ballot elections. McGovern, the ...

The process of union certification is a critical area of labor rights, acting as a precursor to collective bargaining. One method, card check, simplifies this process by allowing workers to express ...

Costly penalties authorized by the proposed Employee Free Choice Act against companies but not organized labor would harm workers’ free speech rights and stifle workplace debate on union issues, ...