First Amendment appeal leads news items including lawyers against lawyers, unions oppose law on free-speech grounds and no more pleading guilty to time served.

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HAGERSTOWN — The union representing Maryland correctional officers is warning that staffing levels in state prisons are at dangerously low levels. The Herald-Mail in Hagerstown reports that the Maryland chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ...

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PERRYVILLE — A strike has been averted after IKEA and workers at a distribution center in Maryland agreed to extend contract talks. The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the workers’ union had rejected IKEA’s latest proposal and approved a strike that ...

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An attempt by workers at a local health care provider to unionize has heated up in recent weeks, especially after the firing of five people involved in that effort led to an online petition that garnered over 1,300 signatures as ...

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Union members alleging harm by their colleagues need not exhaust the organization’s internal dispute procedures but can head straight to court if money damages are unavailable under the union’s process, Maryland’s top court said in affirming a transit worker’s $425,000 defamation award against his union local and its president.

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NEW YORK — Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job on Thursday, organizers say, which would mark the largest effort yet in a push for higher pay. The actions are intended to build on a campaign ...

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A Gambrills shopping center developer has settled its $25 million lawsuit against a labor union it accused of using “sham litigation” to wage an unsuccessful war to keep out Wegmans, a non-union supermarket.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved new rules that extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home health care workers. The rules give a long-awaited boost to nearly 2 million workers who spend their days helping the elderly and ...

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WASHINGTON — As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as too dirty, too demanding or just plain unappealing. But employers that struggle ...

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The nation's labor unions suffered sharp declines in membership last year, led by losses among public sector workers in cash-strapped states, cities, counties and towns.

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