THE LEADER OF a Ukrainian shipyard union received a warm welcome March 22 at Local 1998 (National City, Calif.) and enjoyed a boat tour of the NASSCO shipyard from San Diego Bay.
Read MoreA coalition of faith organizations, investors and labor groups—including the...
Three pioneering and historic women labor trailblazers were inducted into ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been under “relentless political...

The Boilermakers union has long participated in global labor solidarity. We are affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union as...
IndustriALL is launching an ambitious initiative on Sustainable Industrial...
“Whilst we are happy with progress we are making in wage negotiations, we aslo...
This year’s FNV Febe Elizabeth Velasquez Award went to Indonesian trade union...
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Capitol Hill brinkmanship imperils U.S. Navy
Sequestration will hit shipbuilders, country hard
AS THIS COLUMN is being written, it appears that Congress will fail to halt the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. These cuts will strip away about $500 billion from the U.S. military and an equal amount from discretionary federal spending on a host of necessary programs.
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