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Safety tops strike demands for oil workers at BP refinery

February 17, 2015 By Teresa Albano

The workers' demands center on health and safety issues, contracting jobs out to non-union workers and health care.

Canadian Supreme Court: Public workers have the right to strike

February 13, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

As a result of Canadian laws and attitudes, union density there is at least double that in the U.S.

GOP-run Senate panel moves against the NLRB

February 12, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

With the Senate Labor Committee now in the hands of Republicans, both labor committees on Capitol Hill are attacking workers' rights enforced by the NLRB.

Today in African American history: An important birthday

February 12, 2015 By Eric A. Gordon

What you may not realize is that the founding of the NAACP took place, significantly on Abraham Lincoln's centennial birthdate, in 1909.

Longshore union calls employer port shutdown “bad for U.S. economy”

February 12, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

The union has repeatedly emphasized it is committed to reaching a new agreement as quickly as possible, and says only a few issues remain to be negotiated.