This week marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Michigan copper strike of 1913-14, made famous by the Calumet Massacre, where a company thug's call of "Fire!" during a Christmas Eve party led to a stampeded against a door held shut from the...
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An excellent Mark Bittman op-ed about the true cost of food upon those who produce it. Bittman talks about the fast-food strikes of the last few weeks and how only.
I was a union organizer for awhile. Most of this was volunteer work, but I was pretty good at it and there were professionals who encouraged me to go into.
It's good to see the legions of unpaid interns at profit-generating companies organizing and fighting back against the theft of their labor.
The apparel industry's terrible toll upon working-class Asians becomes more apparent everyday: "Distressed” jeans are designed to make that wear-and-tear look seem oh-so-effortless, but it can be the result of.
Why do capitalists move their operations? They do so to maximize profit. But that term is an euphemism that obscures the decisions behind those choices. Profits are great, right! For.
While I don't doubt that Chicago has a real budget crisis coming from unfunded pension requirements, this is pretty telling of how Rahm Emanuel plans to use Teach for America as a way to undercut the teachers' union. Last week, Emanuel laid off 1036 teachers,...
In our part-time and contingent reality, where workers can't get 40-hour a week jobs even at the minimum wage, what they really need is their bosses giving them advice on.
I shouldn't be surprised by Kevin Drum defending the McDonald's budget for its workers, but it's pretty irritating. Moreover, his defense is awful weak, as is that of Tim Lee.
On July 17, 1944, a munitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California killed 320 soldiers, mostly African-Americans loading munitions onto ships. This spurred them to demand improved conditions. When conditions did not improve, a group refused to load the munitions....
Although I would have rather seen the filibuster destroyed for presidential appointments, it's a relatively minor victory for Democrats that the Republicans caved on the seven nominations. Some politicos are.
David Brooks wins that title with most of his articles, but his piece fretting about men in the economy is particularly bad. After a long pointless discussion of The Searchers,.