Think booking a hotel room during summer is tough? It might get tougher if the UNITE-HERE labor union keeps up pressure on several major hotel chains this summer to gain new members. It is using a tried-and-true tactic: a corporate…

Is there a point at which societal change moves so fast that some people not only do not see it, but emphatically deny that it’s happening? That’s the question I was left pondering after the event last week, “An Army…

If, needing to move quickly in an emergency, one of your hands is tied behind your back, you should untie it. But once the emergency has passed, you might ask: “Why did I tie it in the first place?” That’s…

WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO’s loss of two large unions this week hit Democrats and the labor federation hard. But this move by the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) may not hurt Democrats as much as they fear….

Fresh off the contrived controversy of Michael Moore accusing Disney of censorship for refusing to distribute his anti-Bush celluloid screed comes another politically charged film. The Day After Tomorrow, a flick that purports to warn about destruction wrought by global…