As unions continue to push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, one of the labor movementÕs most progressive leaders is sending a message to his colleagues: DonÕt hold your breath. John Wilhelm, president of Unite Here, the international hotel and casino workers union, told attendees at the Global Gaming Expo on Wednesday that the Employee ...

One of the unions that left the AFL-CIO in a bitter dispute that split the labor movement four years ago is coming back to the labor federation. The union of hotel, restaurant and clothing workers known as UNITE HERE is bringing its 265,000 members back a day ...

NO SOLIDARITY FOR LABOR

Months after helping put Barack Obama in the White House, organized labor's most important unions are sliding into vicious internecine warfare.
The strife has become so intense that the senior Democratic leadership is intervening. The Democrats, under pressure from labor to pass legislation that would make it much easier to unionize workplaces, fear the disputes ...

Labor is losing. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to win Democratic majorities in Congress and elect Barack Obama president, the labor movementÕs No. 1 legislative priority — a bill that would make it easier for workers to organize — is in severe jeopardy, in large part because of high-profile infighting among ...