After overcoming union and political opposition to new stores in Chicago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is looking for ways to overcome or get around similar resistance in New York City.

UFCW Local 23 in Pittsburgh has ratified a new four-year contract with Giant Eagle Supermarkets, covering approximately 5,800 workers at 36 stores.

President Obama is reviving the thorny issue of immigration this week. He sent administration officials to Arizona on Monday to advertise his efforts on border security, while he is encouraging supporters of an immigration overhaul to focus their ire on Republicans as the cause for the legislation’s stall in Congress.

The health-care overhaul gained popularity from May to June, according to a new tracking poll.

Giant Eagle Supermarkets, Inc. has reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract with the union representing workers at 34 supermarkets in western Pennsylvania and two in northern West Virginia.

A federal judge in Iowa on Monday announced a prison sentence of 27 years on financial fraud charges for Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of a kosher meatpacking plant where hundreds of illegal immigrant workers were arrested in a 2008 raid that garnered national attention.

Kroger grocery workers are standing together for good contracts with their employer. When we are united, our voices are stronger--and we have more power to demand that our employers share their success with the workers who make it possible.

Jack Layton, a Canadian Member of Parliament and the Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada has sent a letter to Larry Young, CEO and Director of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, in support of the striking Mott's workers at Dr. Pepper Snapple's plant in Williamson, New York.

Thunder Bay‘s Real Canadian Superstore workers have given their union a strong strike mandate as talks remain on hold.

Supporters of Giant Eagle workers negotiating for a new contract showed that support in a unique way this morning by shopping en masse in the supermarket's location in Shadyside.