The general tenor of the labor community is that Obama was typically tepid on labor issues in his State of the Union. He mentioned in passing a union workplace in Milwaukee as an example of jobs being brought back to the United States, but the...
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In case you were questioning how central Republicans' anti-labor zealotry is to their program, they are choosing Indiana's Mitch Daniels to deliver the state of the union response. Daniels is.
Pathetically, I think the largest news outlet covering the Indiana right to work a person to death law is LGM. Although the media is giving this story zero attention, Indiana.
What is your vision of a 1970s union leader? Lane Kirkland and his lame leadership of the AFL-CIO? Jimmy Hoffa? A bunch of old men in suits? One could hardly blame you if you had that in your mind. Every narrative tells us unions were...
What on earth has happened to the Atlantic? It's become embarrassing, especially considering the century and a half of great authors who have published there. It still occasionally publishes some.
Josh Eidelson on Jacob Lew, Obama's new Chief of Staff. When Lew was Chief Operating Officer at NYU, he took the lead in crushing the university's graduate student union, which.
Last week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressed the United Nations Investor Summit on Climate Risk. He made a couple of important points. First: And to those who say climate risk is a far off problem, I can tell you that I have hunted the same...
1. North Carolina call center workers are organizing with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Sitel treats their employees like early 20th century sweatshop workers, with the classic bathroom problem.
By chance, I came across this article in the October 22, 1958 edition of the International Woodworker: The following item is for the attention of those who claim that organized.
I'm not writing about the 1912 Lawrence strike in This Day in Labor History this year, so instead read Steve Early's nice piece on the 100th anniversary of this very important event.
So now that everyone is through with Clown Show 2: We Drop Our r's Edition, maybe we can get to a story that actually matters.* And I don't mean Clown.
Outstanding piece of journalism by David Bacon, showing how NAFTA has brought North Carolina and Veracruz together, connected by Smithfield Farms trying to screw both places over. Essentially, as North.