At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, one couldn't walk five feet through Marriott Wardman Park Hotel without hearing some columnist, elected official or ordinary attendee inveigh against organized labor. The hotel's largely union staff put up with it by showing their pride. more ›

Several hundred protesters descended on the gates of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel earlier this afternoon to voice their displeasure with the Conservative Political Action Conference going on inside. more ›

Earlier this month, we noted that some 12,000 office cleaners in the Washington area were planning to go on strike if their demands for higher wages, fewer staffing cuts and health-care benefits for more workers were not met. Looks like the threat worked. more ›

For the past several weeks, a labor protest outside the Madison Hotel at 1177 15th Street NW has been causing a real commotion, day and night. But quiet has finally arrived -- Michael Neibauer reports that the union, Unite Here Local 25, and hotel management came to a settlement last night with the help of Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, putting an end to the noise, at least temporarily. more ›

Yesterday, dozens of protesters descended on the state of Wisconsin's D.C. offices at 444 North Capitol Street NW to participate in a Service Employees International Union-organized solidarity rally. more ›

Nurses at the Washington Hospital Center voted Wednesday to hold a one-day strike in early March to protest staffing and wage cuts amidst lagging contract negotiations. The National Nurses United union, which represents the approximately 1,600 nurses at WHC, has been at loggerheads with the hospital over contract issues since last year. more ›

Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 are encouraging their members who operate Metrobuses to do every single little thing by the book this week. The push comes in the wake of two recent incidents which saw bus drivers plow down pedestrians in the District. Unsuck DC Metro got the ball rolling on this story yesterday, and the Post's Lena Sun later followed up with a story of her own. more ›

The D.C. Council earlier today passed an amended version of the noise bill first introduced by Tommy Wells and Mary Cheh that was born out of Ward 6 resident David Klavitter's crusade to put an end to amplified street preachers keeping him awake at his home near H Street NE. But Wells and Cheh actually voted against this bill, after it was basically gutted by an amendment introduced by Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas Jr. that was a major concession to union groups. more ›

The D.C. Council voted 10 to 3 today to give Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee the power to fire nonunion central office employees. more ›