Ever since Mike Elk broke the story about the Koch Brothers intimidating Georgia Pacific mill workers in Oregon to vote for Mitt Romney, we've seen a tidal wave of corporate overloads trying to influence their workers' votes. Just in last 24 hours, I've seen a...
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Michelle Rhee's organization StudentsLast is not just anti-teacher union. It's anti-collective bargaining more broadly. The organization has contributed $500,000 against Michigan's Proposal 2, which would make the right to collective.
We've seen a lot of coverage of lockouts lately because professional sports league owners have used the tactic to try and wring major concessions out of unions. But it is.
On October 23, 1976, International Woodworkers of America Local 3-101 in Everett, Washington had its monthly union meeting. Big deal, you might be thinking. Locals have meetings all the time and nothing much happens at them. And not a whole lot happened at this lunchtime...
This paper demonstrates that since 1948, manufacturing jobs have consistently risen during Democratic presidencies and have declined precipitously during Republican administrations. As the authors point out, some of this is.
The Economist decides to hide a tasty anti-union nugget inside an essay theoretically dedicated to some sort of radical centrism. The priority should be a Rooseveltian attack on monopolies and.
As reported on Up with Chris this morning, Mike Elk has an important story out on how the Koch Brothers are trying to influence workers in the companies they own to vote for Republicans. Focusing on their Georgia Pacific plywood and paper mills in Oregon,...
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart.
Wendy Lyon with an interesting piece about the Irish labor movement explicitly excluding sex workers from its definition of labor. It's hardly surprising, both within the Irish context of discomfort.
I love the Seattle Seahawks. But they just won the worst refereed game in the history of the National Football League. After bogus call after bogus call, affecting both teams equally for most of the game, the final blow against the NFL lockout has just...
When workers are rioting because their lives are so awful that there's absolutely nothing to lose, it's pretty bloody awful. Let's just hope international pressure continues to push Apple to.
On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's.