The Center for Labor Research and Education (The Labor Center) at University of California, Berkeley, offers information about our Center as well as a few back issues of their newsletter/journal - The Labor Center Reporter.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) maintains and analyzes data on "virtually all agreements in both private industry and state and local government covering 1,000 workers or more" at the Collective Bargaining Agreements homepage. The site provides statistics on major work stoppages (1947-1998) in addition to the quarterly BLS publication Compensation and Working Conditions. Also available is...

Recently the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries collaborated with the Harry Bridge Center for Labor Studies to create this rather special digital collection of materials related to Pacific Northwest labor history. It's an impressive endeavor, and visitors can make their way through five topical areas here. The areas include "The I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest"...

Three hours past the 12.01 am contract expiration date on Wednesday May 2, 2001, negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) continued. Along with a pay raise, the 11,500-member WGA demands greater compensation, including residuals for international and cable syndication and when their writing is sold via DVD, the...

Middletown, New Jersey schoolteachers went back to work today after a labor dispute that landed a quarter of the teaching work force in jail. The teachers had staged a walk-out because they refused to continue working without a new contract (the old one had expired on June 30), and they resisted proposed increases in their health insurance premiums. Last week, Judge Clarkson S. Fisher Jr. issued a...

On Monday, officials of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, which represents the striking workers of the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, announced they would seek an injunction from the National Labor Relations Board against the Times to cease from what the Guild describes as "threats, intimidation and interfering with employee rights." This action is the latest development in...