1. I know we all took the words of charter school advocates very, very seriously. It was all about the students and not about busting the teacher unions at all. Or not. Teachers and staff at a Chicago charter school for troubled youths have filed...
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On this date in 1937, Chicago police opened fire on strikers in front of the Republic Steel mill, killing 10 workers. Part of the "Little Steel" strike, where smaller steel.
Yet another reason why Obama needed to stand up to agribusiness and eliminate child labor on farms. Which of course he did not.
Well, it looks like Democrats are giving up on recalling Scott Walker. The DNC has still refused to help. Obama has stayed far away in a state that is a toss-up in November and is quite important to his reelection strategy. Poll numbers aren't moving....
Josh Eidelson has a provocative piece at In These Times exploring the possibility of killing the National Labor Relations Act. Quoting several union leaders who note that the labor law.
1. An underfunded and industry-dominated OSHA can't properly investigate workers' death. This fantastic Jim Morris investigation of how OSHA did nothing when a worker at U.S. Steel died on the.
On this date 92 years ago, the Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia. In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America had a new president: John L. Lewis. Lewis, who would become one of the most powerful labor...
On May 16, 1934, a mere week after longshoremen in San Francisco walked off the job and roiled the west coast, truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action.
1. Chipotle is supposed to be the "good" fast food company. You know, the capitalists that we can look to and say, "Hey, the system can work!" But Chipotle also.
On this date in 1934, longshoremen on the West Coast walked off their jobs, beginning of the largest strikes in the history of the region and helping feed the move toward industrial unionism that transformed American labor in the 1930s. Labor relations on the docks...
Not only do you now have to pay to be an extra in a movie, but Groupon offers deals so you can pay less!
On March 4, 1886, during a protest march against police brutality in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb went off in the middle of a group of policemen, killing 7 officers..