Two stories here that revolve around the theme of organized labor rarely getting value for the money it donates to Democratic politicians. On the national level, Communication Workers of American president Larry Cohen held a conference call with reporters and bloggers yesterday to say that...
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MLBPA stands up: A fight over health care benefits between unionized workers and management at a factory in Pennsylvania has gotten the attention of Major League Baseball’s players, who are.
A couple of months ago, I noted how coal giant Peabody Coal had created a spinoff corporation called Patriot Coal with the explicit mission of sending it toward bankruptcy in.
Daniel Gross' discussion of IWW Local 8, the iteration of the Wobblies on the Philadelphia docks during the 1910s is interesting, but it's a lot more problematic as a lesson that "could transform the labor movement," as the article's title states. Local 8 wasn't just...
I found Alec MacGillis' discussion of the new gun politics quite interesting. I'm not sure that we are seeing the death of the NRA here, but there's no question that.
On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union.
Mike Elk has a really great piece on the 1-day federal contract workers strike. It's simple. First, our government should not be allowed to contract with employers who have a history of labor law violations. Second, all workers toiling for the federal government, whether directly...
Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding and thus.
As I talked about yesterday, there's a 1-day strike today of non-unionized government contract workers who make low wages and who SEIU ultimately wants to organize. In ye olden days.
Today, a one day strike is taking place among non-union, low-paid government workers, some of the nearly 2 million government workers making less than $12 an hour, which I think is an absurdly low wage for a federal employee or someone employed by a government...
Cool article on the 1913 barbers' strike in New York, which led to the reduction of barbers' workweeks from 92(!!!) hours to a mere 62 with Sunday off. I may.
This is an interesting piece about apparel corporations looking to get out of Bangladesh because of the bad publicity the building collapse has given the companies. They want to move.