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.

50 Years After the March on Washington, Unions Still Have a Dream

At MLK March, Renewed Call For Obama Executive Order on Wages

Unions Join MLK 50th Anniversary Rally, Renew Call for ‘Jobs and Freedom’

Oil Drilling Boom Boosts Boilermakers, Other Shipyard Unions

National Labor Board Shutdown Averted as Senate Approves New Members

Democrats Paid ‘Pound of Flesh’ in National Labor Board Fight

IBEW Chimes In with Obamacare Concerns

Fireworks Explode in New York Over Chinese Bridge Deal

Unite Here and Hyatt Hotels Reach Broad Peace Agreement

Supreme Court Scrutiny of ‘Neutrality’ Pacts Could Be Another Blow to Unions

Big Business Scores Another Win as Supreme Court Takes Up Presidential Appointments to NLRB

What Are ‘Micro-Unions,’ and Why Is Big Business So Upset About Them?

Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown

Labor Department Hits the Road To Push Minimum Wage Hike

Obama Aims Budget Torpedo at Merchant Mariner Unions

New Twinkies Will Have a Missing Ingredient: Union Labor

Local Unions Notch A Victory At Baltimore’s New Casino

U.S. Workers Fly 4,000 Miles To Confront Dutch Bosses

Obama Tries To Revive Gutted Labor Board

Grocery Unions At Stop & Shop Take Obamacare’s Leap of Faith

Labor Law Loses Its Watchdog

Employers are waking up to the fact that they are no longer required to follow the NLRB's orders.

‘Hyatt Hurts’ Boycott Inflicts Pain on the Hotel Giant (Updated)

For Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Is A ‘Company Town’

New England Grocery Unions Face Grueling Obamacare Test (Update)

New Aid for Hostess Workers As Bakeries Auction Approaches

Fired Hyatt Workers Win Their Jobs Back

Scabs Recruited as 40,000 New England Grocery Workers Prepare To Strike

Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’

Propelled By ALEC, ‘Right-to-Work’ Assault on Unions Reaches Pennsylvania

UAW’s Bob King: Expanding the Fight Against Michigan’s Anti-Worker Forces

Strike Threat Proves Powerful For East Coast Longshore Union

What’s Next for Michigan Unions?

Death Notice For A Steel Mill: Sparrows Point To Be Liquidated, Razed

Machinists Rapidly Unionizing Ikea Warehouses: 3 Down, 2 to Go

Death at Peabody’s Willow Lake Mine Leads to Permanent Closure: 400 Jobs Lost

NLRB Backs Hyatt Workers Fired During Union Campaign

Mediation Fails to Resolve Hostess Strike — Owners Intent on Dissolving the Company

Twinkie-Maker Hostess Fires 18,000 People: Blames Long-Suffering Workers

Surprise Strike Against Owners of Wonder Bread, Twinkies

Judge Rips Up Union Contracts for Twinkie Makers

European-Style Union Busting Provokes U.S., Dutch Workers

Unions in Maryland Back Marriage Equality

Maritime Labor Alliance Formed with Oct. 1 Dock Strike Looming

After Battle with Mining Giant Peabody, Willow Lake Coal Miners Win Union

Labor Tension Rising at American Airlines, As Bankruptcy Judge OKs Union Busting

Blind Activists Boycott Goodwill Over Subminimum Pay

Twinkie-Maker Gives Teamsters Brutal ‘Last, Best’ Offer

From Steel Mill to Scrap Yard? The Agony of Sparrows Point Drags On

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