Atrios points us to this piece on supermarkets pulling back from the self-checkout stands. I am very glad to see this. As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more.
We don't often think of professors as the most proletarianized of workforces; professors don't usually think of themselves this way. But professors have been on the defensive against college and.
On September 17, 1989, 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. The Pittston strike was one of the most brutal.
Good piece on the two-tiered wage system at UAW organized auto plants. Like a lot of labor people, I am really torn by this. On the one hand, it has.
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.
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.
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.
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.
