Could someone please explain to me the arguments against and counter-arguments for the role of unions in the Australian Labor Party? [more inside]
posted by teem on Mar 4, 2012 - 3 answers

Tell me about companies that encouraged or directed employees to form a guild or union from the beginning. What did they do, why did they do it, how was it received and how did it work out? [more inside]
posted by michaelh on Feb 7, 2012 - 7 answers

UK (and especially London) folks, where should a returning US labor union staffer work in the UK? I’ll be returning to London (location non-negotiable) early next year after almost ten years in the US. I left the UK soon after I graduated (I’ve never held a career job there), and I’ve worked as a labor union staffer in the US, working my way up to positions with a good deal of strategic and management responsibility, but I'm absolutely open to a change... [more inside]
posted by crabintheocean on Oct 10, 2011 - 7 answers

Help me learn some union/protest/solidarity songs, please. [more inside]
posted by willie11 on Mar 28, 2011 - 21 answers

Two years ago the American United Steelworkers and the British UNITE merged to form what was then referred to as a transcontinental "super union". I can find all sorts of articles before and just after this occurrence, but very little follow up. This isn't particularly surprising: Labor news in the U.S. barely gets any coverage. But does anyone know how the merger turned out? [more inside]
posted by LeonBernstein on Sep 8, 2010 - 1 answer

My father just won an arbitration hearing against his ex-employer. They were supposed to grant him retirement leave -- but they've found a way to force him to return to work. Help! [more inside]
posted by Julia F***ing Sugarbaker on Sep 4, 2009 - 18 answers

When is the right time to get Labor Union representation? [more inside]
posted by Jon-o on Jul 12, 2009 - 8 answers

I've been offered a job as the political director of a regional labor federation. Should I take it? [more inside]
posted by jlowen on Mar 29, 2007 - 6 answers

How can I get out of a union? [more inside]
posted by pieoverdone on Mar 15, 2007 - 26 answers

Labor movement people... this is a long shot I know... Does anyone have any experience with the Prewitt Organizing Fund? [more inside]
posted by crabintheocean on Sep 5, 2006 - 1 answer

How to form or join a union? [more inside]
posted by papakwanz on Feb 7, 2006 - 16 answers

If a union challenges your previously non-union position and wins, now making your job the only union position in the immediate office, what can you do about it? Can you really be forced to work a union position if that's not how the job was presented to you 4 years ago when you took it?
posted by nramsey on Dec 9, 2003 - 9 answers