I've generally supported Barack Obama's labor strategies. His appointment of people like Craig Becker to the NLRB have made real changes in working people's lives. Yet Obama has been deafeningly quiet during the big labor struggles of his administration. The Employee Free Choice Act quickly...
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Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera's worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions.
In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power.
Some items of note from the last week: 1. More than 90% of 62,000 United Food and Commercial Workers in southern California grocery stores voted to authorize a strike because the big chains, who are negotiating as a single unit, are looking to slash their...
Verizon workers have called off their strike, the nation's largest in the past 4 years, after the company agreed to temporarily extend the contract and come back to the bargaining.
It's been interesting watching how Wisconsin and Ohio have dealt with their individual union-busting Tea Party legislatures and governors. Wisconsin got all the press. In fact, I was pretty disappointed.
The Postal Service laying off 120,000 workers is just about the worst thing that could happen to the economy. Mark Andersen suggests a simple solution to fix the USPS problems: The fix for our postal service is simple and it does not have to mean...
Mark Engler has an excellent discussion of why the Verizon strike is so important, or as he puts it, the next Wisconsin: The parallel to Wisconsin is apt for several.
1. Thirteen unions are boycotting the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte because North Carolina is a "right to work" state. These are mostly the building trades, for whom using.
There's been a surprising number of union victories of late. I discuss several of them in my new piece at Alternet and consider their possible implications. With all of this pretty good to great news all of a sudden, one wonders, is this coincidence? Or...
Over 45,000 Verizon workers in nine eastern states, under the leadership of the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have gone out of strike. This.
The Dems -- who need three wins to take over the state Senate from the reactionary and anti-labor Republicans --are 2 out of 5 so far, and are leading (but.