It is fully understandable that in the culture of the rich and powerful, anything goes if it serves the purposes of making money and living extremely well.
Art Levine | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
If practically everyone's broke, thousands are killed on the job or can be fired at will, who'll be left to do the spending needed to stimulate the economy?
Elana Levin | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Some of my colleagues have worked with her for decades. She has a deep and personal connection with working Americans that stems from decades working to help workers get their rights.
Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business
Everyone thought that the 200 plus workers at a Chicago door and window factory were so quaint, staging an old-fashioned sit-in in today's all-about-m...
Anna Burger | Posted 12.12.2008 | Home
With news that unemployment claims have reached a 26-year high and Congress' continuing failure to reach a compromise to save millions of jobs and Ame...
Peter Dreier | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business
The bold factory take-over by the Republic workers in Chicago may be a fluke, or it just could be the opening salvo of a new wave of grassroots activism inspired by Obama's campaign.
Judy Patrick and Surina Khan | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
Already disadvantaged by years of workplace and legislative failures, women and their families face an increasingly insecure future if policies are not adjusted to meet our ever more pressing needs.
David Sirota | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
Obama will not support linking the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to economic stimulus. That's good policy and good politics. It will also prevent Bush's last-ditch effort to fracture the Democratic Party.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
Almost unnoticed in the well-earned exuberance of the Obama and other pro-worker candidates being elected to public office, is that America's unions h...
Thomas Kochan | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Main Street America is sending a clear message to Washington these days: Don't direct all your help to Wall Street. Give us the tools we need to dig ourselves out of our own economic crisis.
Thomas Kochan | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
One unanticipated fall out of the financial crisis is that now, lo and behold, Senator McCain has proclaimed "workers are the backbone of the economy...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against extending unemployment benefits.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
The Employee Free Choice Act is a vital piece of legislation that, if passed, will go a long way toward restoring the middle class in our country.
Rep. George Miller | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics
Our nation's workers, battered by unfair global competition, stagnant wages, declining benefits, and poor employer compliance with labor laws, deserve a Department of Labor that lives up to its name.
Art Levine | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics
Today, workers and labor advocates should remind the public -- and progressives -- of the threat McCain's free-market policies pose to working families and labor rights.
Thomas Kochan | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have made "Renewing the American Dream" the theme of their domestic policy platform and vision for the future. But workers have good reason to be skeptical
Richard Trumka | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
The opponents of working people are trying to divide us by using Obama's race as an issue. Union members must lead the fight against such divisions and, instead, look at the bottom line.
ZP Heller | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
As to Wal-Mart scaring workers into believing that if Democrats win in November, they will lose, I ask this: if you're a Wal-Mart employee who's making a meager hourly wage that doesn't even cover the cost of food for your family or doctors' visits for your children, haven't you lost already?
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business
There always seems to be plenty of money and will to rescue financial giants, but when the working stiffs of America need help to get paid, our government doesn't have enough resources to help.
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall fo...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Meatpacking at a unionized facility was at one time a ticket to a middle-class life. Today, thanks to absurdly lax enforcement of immigration laws, the same type of work buys a peasant's existence.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
By traveling to Colombia to promote a trade program that will continue the race to the bottom, McCain is ignoring the crimes of its regime, which condones the torture and murder of trade unionists.
The Uptake | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
"Northwest and Delta are talking about merging. It would be the largest airline company in the world. But what about jobs? It's just one more way for a couple of rich guys to get richer."
Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 03.10.2008 | Business
If a pink slip hurts, what about a letter from Citicard announcing that you've been laid off as a shopper?
David Sirota | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
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Gordon Fellman | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business