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.
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Labor
50 Years After the March on Washington, Unions Still Have a Dream
Bruce Vail
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Labor
At MLK March, Renewed Call For Obama Executive Order on Wages
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Unions Join MLK 50th Anniversary Rally, Renew Call for ‘Jobs and Freedom’
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Oil Drilling Boom Boosts Boilermakers, Other Shipyard Unions
Bruce Vail
Labor
National Labor Board Shutdown Averted as Senate Approves New Members
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Democrats Paid ‘Pound of Flesh’ in National Labor Board Fight
Bruce Vail
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Labor
IBEW Chimes In with Obamacare Concerns
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Fireworks Explode in New York Over Chinese Bridge Deal
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Unite Here and Hyatt Hotels Reach Broad Peace Agreement
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Supreme Court Scrutiny of ‘Neutrality’ Pacts Could Be Another Blow to Unions
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Big Business Scores Another Win as Supreme Court Takes Up Presidential Appointments to NLRB
Bruce Vail
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Labor
What Are ‘Micro-Unions,’ and Why Is Big Business So Upset About Them?
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Labor Department Hits the Road To Push Minimum Wage Hike
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Obama Aims Budget Torpedo at Merchant Mariner Unions
Bruce Vail
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Labor
New Twinkies Will Have a Missing Ingredient: Union Labor
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Local Unions Notch A Victory At Baltimore’s New Casino
Bruce Vail
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Labor
U.S. Workers Fly 4,000 Miles To Confront Dutch Bosses
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Obama Tries To Revive Gutted Labor Board
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Grocery Unions At Stop & Shop Take Obamacare’s Leap of Faith
Bruce Vail
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Feature
Labor Law Loses Its Watchdog
Employers are waking up to the fact that they are no longer required to follow the NLRB's orders.
Bruce Vail
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Labor
‘Hyatt Hurts’ Boycott Inflicts Pain on the Hotel Giant (Updated)
Bruce Vail
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Labor
For Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Is A ‘Company Town’
Bruce Vail
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Labor
New England Grocery Unions Face Grueling Obamacare Test (Update)
Bruce Vail
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Labor
New Aid for Hostess Workers As Bakeries Auction Approaches
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Fired Hyatt Workers Win Their Jobs Back
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Scabs Recruited as 40,000 New England Grocery Workers Prepare To Strike
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Propelled By ALEC, ‘Right-to-Work’ Assault on Unions Reaches Pennsylvania
Bruce Vail
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Labor
UAW’s Bob King: Expanding the Fight Against Michigan’s Anti-Worker Forces
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Strike Threat Proves Powerful For East Coast Longshore Union
Bruce Vail
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Labor
What’s Next for Michigan Unions?
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Death Notice For A Steel Mill: Sparrows Point To Be Liquidated, Razed
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Machinists Rapidly Unionizing Ikea Warehouses: 3 Down, 2 to Go
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Death at Peabody’s Willow Lake Mine Leads to Permanent Closure: 400 Jobs Lost
Bruce Vail
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Labor
NLRB Backs Hyatt Workers Fired During Union Campaign
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Mediation Fails to Resolve Hostess Strike — Owners Intent on Dissolving the Company
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Twinkie-Maker Hostess Fires 18,000 People: Blames Long-Suffering Workers
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Surprise Strike Against Owners of Wonder Bread, Twinkies
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Judge Rips Up Union Contracts for Twinkie Makers
Bruce Vail
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Labor
European-Style Union Busting Provokes U.S., Dutch Workers
Bruce Vail
Labor
Unions in Maryland Back Marriage Equality
Bruce Vail
Labor
Maritime Labor Alliance Formed with Oct. 1 Dock Strike Looming
Bruce Vail
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Labor
After Battle with Mining Giant Peabody, Willow Lake Coal Miners Win Union
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Labor Tension Rising at American Airlines, As Bankruptcy Judge OKs Union Busting
Bruce Vail
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Labor
Blind Activists Boycott Goodwill Over Subminimum Pay
Bruce Vail
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Twinkie-Maker Gives Teamsters Brutal ‘Last, Best’ Offer
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