Bruce Vail - In These Times

Bruce Vail is a Baltimore-based freelance writer with decades of experience covering labor and business stories for newspapers, magazines and new media. He was a reporter for Bloomberg BNA’s Daily Labor Report, covering collective bargaining issues in a wide range of industries, and a maritime industry reporter and editor for the Journal of Commerce, serving both in the newspaper’s New York City headquarters and in the Washington, D.C. bureau.

Vail has also worked inside the labor movement as a staff writer, researcher and editor for the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (AFL-CIO). Based in the Washington, D.C. office, Bruce helped produce the union’s various publications and also worked on organizing and legislative projects between 1996 and 2005. Currently living in Baltimore, Md., Bruce has been a member of The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, and the Office and Professional Employees International Union.

Washington, D.C., Teachers Union Wrestles with the Legacy of Michelle Rhee

Tuesday’s Baltimore Primary Results Mean a $15 Minimum Wage Is Likely Coming Soon

Teamsters Activists Move To Prevent Slashing of Hundreds of Thousands of Retirees’ Pensions

Demanding an End to Citizens United, 300 ‘Democracy Awakening’ Protesters Arrested at U.S. Capitol

A&P Supermarket Chain Stiffs 21,000 Pensioners, Government Will Pick Up $288 Million Tab

Did a Virginia School for Saudi Arabia Diplomatic Staff’s Children Fire Teachers for Organizing?

Los Angeles Charter Teachers Say Their Administration Is Aggressively Trying To Bust Their Union

“I often had to skip meals”: Senate Dining Room Workers Want a Union, Say They’re Living in Poverty

Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley Back New IKEA Union Organizing Drive

Oxfam Calls Out ‘Big Chicken’ for Rampant Labor Abuses

Teamsters Say Union Buster C&S Wholesale Grocers Aims To Kill Jobs at Safeway

33 Workers Dead After U.S. Cargo Ship Lost at Sea. Could It Have Been Prevented?

Adjuncts Win Union Contract at Maryland Institute College of Art

Even the Wall Street Journal Smells a Rat in A&P Supermarkets Bankruptcy

Teamsters Protest as Treasury Debates Allowing Pension Cuts for 1.5 Million Retirees

Just in Time for Labor Day, NLRB Rules in Favor of Hooters Workers

More Bad News for A&P Supermarket Workers as Judge OKs Assaults on Union Contracts

IKEA Says It’s “Socially Responsible.” So Why Are Workers Accusing It of Union-Busting?

UE Organizing Director Bob Kingsley Prepares To Step Down, But Lefty Union Shows No Signs of Slowing

Union President: Supermarket Chain A&P Will Fire 25,000 Grocery Workers

You Can Bet on These Racetrack Workers To Fight for a Raise From Their Billionaire Boss

Bankruptcy Judge Gives Go-Ahead for Mass Firings of Unionized A&P Grocery Workers

Grocery Chain A&P’s Financial Meltdown Could Leave Thousands of Union Workers Jobless

Teamster Retirees’ Campaign Against Pension Cuts Draws Support from Bernie Sanders

In China, Walmart Is Unionized, But Workers Have No Power on the Job

Applebee’s Is Trying To Limit Workers’ Ability to Sue the Company When Their Wages Are Stolen

Daniel Tobin and the Rise of the Teamsters Union

After Freddie Gray Protests, Baltimore Unions Demand End to “Trickle-down” Neighborhood Development

Does General Motors Matter Anymore?

Some Union Pension Cuts Likely As New Federal Rules Take Shape

Obama Promises Rare Veto As House Votes to Slow Down Union Elections, Curb NLRB

Acknowledging “Ugly History of Racism” in Labor Movement, AFL-CIO Creates New Commission on Race

Did Jimmy John’s Fire Yet Another Worker for Supporting a Union?

20,000 Delta Flight Attendants Prepare for ‘Biggest [Union] Drive In the History of the Industry’

Goucher College Adjuncts Expect Union Victory As Organizing Spreads in Maryland

Atlanta Stagehands Fight ‘Labor Pimps’ Pushing Temp Work, Low Wages

Senate Confirms Obama’s Labor Board Choice Ahead of GOP Senate Takeover

Bankruptcy Court Ruling Helps Anti-Union Grocer Slash Benefits and Pensions for 1,100 Workers

Baltimore Teens Take Out the Trash

Youth battle a waste incinerator.

Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures

Republicans Chalk Up a Victory After Forcing Obama to Withdraw Labor Board Nominee

After Public Radio Station Hires Notorious Union-Buster, Employees Likely to Lose Union Vote

Teamsters Warehouse Workers Face a Bankruptcy Court Designed to Protect Bosses, Not Workers

New Republican Bill Would Paralyze National Labor Relations Board

In Pennsylvania, Labor Poised to Unseat Corbett in November Elections

Student Labor Activists Renew Spirit of 1964 Freedom Summer

Fast-Food Workers Bite Back at Jimmy John’s Sandwich Shops

Radio Silence Is Union Strategy at Baltimore Public Broadcasting Station

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