The nurses' union says county management failed to bargain in good faith around working conditions and safety issues that impact nurses and patient care.

Members of the California Faculty Association approved a two-year agreement that the union and administration hammered out after a strike last month that lasted one day.

Student workers at the 23-campus CSU system say their pay is low, their hours are restricted and they get no sick pay. They are hoping to join the employees union to fix that.

If the Staten Island union organizing efforts prove contagious, Amazon would start looking more like Starbucks, where more locations are voting to unionize every week. Amazon’s fight with its new union promises to be nothing less than a bitter, messy, drawn-out battle that could help determine the future of American work.

Teachers at the six high schools in the Campbell district received a $5,000 one-time payment last year. The teachers' union wants that raise to be permanent, plus a permanent 4% increase.

After four months of negotiating, threatened strikes and sickouts, Santa Clara County reached an agreement Friday with its biggest union, whose employees agreed to chip in more from their own paychecks for healthcare in exchange for small raises.

This just in: The City of San Jose and International Association of Fire Fighters Local 230 have agreed tentatively to reduce firefighters’ total compensation by 10 percent. Mayor Chuck Reed and union president Jeff Welch will hold a 6pm press conference today outside of City Hall at 200 E. Santa Clara St.. A source close to the negotiations said the deal was close to what was previously reported on San Jose Inside, minus the retirement portion, because the city wants to study actuarial schedules in greater detail.