Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm Work
By Michelle Chen / AlterNet
It should be no surprise that on America’s farms, many women are treated as less than human, since not even the government sees them as worthy of respect under the law.
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Oregon's Assault on Teachers
By Adam Sanchez
Socialist Worker
Is Job Security Real Security? Gainful Unemployment May Be A Workable Alternative
By Shannon Hayes
YES! Magazine
Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution
By Michelle Chen
The New Press


Oregon Activists Pick Up "Health Care as a Human Right" Campaign for Real Universal Care
By Peter Shapiro / Labor Notes
Labor Struggles, Then and Now: Workers in One Iowa Town Epitomize the Past and Present of the Labor Movement
By Kari Lydersen / In These Times
New York Nurses Take Back Their Union, Push for Safe Staffing
By Mark Brenner / Labor Notes
Nurses Defy Chicago Mayor, Rallying for Robin Hood Tax
By Mischa Gaus / Labor Notes
Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'
By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home
By Michelle Chen / In These Times
Waste Company Locks Out Teamsters in Bid to Eliminate Pensions
By Josh Eidelson / In These Times
Hostess Brands Uses Bankruptcy Court to Screw Workers Out of Pensions, Benefits
By Bruce Vail / In These Times
Workers Battle ExxonMobil Over Safety at Baton Rouge Refinery
By Roger Bybee / In These Times

Over 100 Children a Year Die Working On Farms: Why Do Prominent Right-Wingers Fight Safety Regulations?
By Mariya Strauss / AlterNet
U.N. Strike in Jordan Shows Convergence of Labor and Middle East Politics
By Michelle Chen / In These Times
"Serious as a Heart Attack": RoseAnn DeMoro Explains How to Raise $350 Billion from Financial Transaction Tax
By Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company
Productivity Doubled -- And The Middle Class Got Screwed. What Went Wrong?
By Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Sotheby’s Art Handlers' Lockout Enters Tenth Month As Auction House Makes Record Sales
By Josh Eidelson / In These Times
Chomsky: Do We Have the Makings of a Real Revolution?
By Noam Chomsky / TomDispatch.com

Debt: What It Is and Why We Fight It
By Sarah Jaffe, Mike Konczal, David Graeber, Astra Taylor, Brian Kalkbrenner / N+1 Magazine
Chicago's Cracking Down on Protests but Nurses Union Still Planning Huge Rally with Tom Morello
By Aaron Krager / AlterNet
School "Lunch Ladies" Fight for Better Food for Students--And Better Jobs
By Kari Lydersen / In These Times
ALEC's Voter ID Laws Work to Overturn Hundreds of Years of Progressive Moves to Broaden Democracy
By Leo Gerard / AlterNet
Beyond May Day, Frustrated Immigrant Movement Forges Ahead
By Michelle Chen / In These Times
Why are Oil Refinery Workers Being Forced to Pay for a Deadly Explosion?
By Patrick Young / Labor Notes
New Equal Employment Rulings Help Transgender, Ex-Offender Workers Get & Keep Jobs
By Josh Eidelson / In These Times

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