Labor

Framed: How Redefining Direct Democracy as Anti-Democratic Won Wisconsin

By John Nichols / The Nation

Walker's $35 million campaign began with a multimillion-dollar ad buy that described recalls as "sour grapes" -- a message that came to define the election.

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Freakonomics Author Steven Levitt: Authoritarian Corporate Shill?

By Yasha Levine / eXiled Online

Why We Fight for Democracy in the Workplace

By Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Mitt Romney's Long Assault on Firefighters

By Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon

Don't Despair: Consider Some Radical Approaches That Have Worked in a Country Almost the Size of Ours

By Stephen Lerner / AlterNet

84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

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Labor

How the Wisconsin Uprising Took the Wrong Turn

Andy Kroll / TomDispatch.com

Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Immigrants Manipulated into Giving Fingerprints

Elena Shore / New America Media

New Alabama Bill Requires Names of All Illegal Immigrants who Appear in Court to Be Published

Janet Murguia / Huffington Post

War On Women Extends to Their Paychecks: Senate Republicans Refuse to Pass Paycheck Fairness Act

Mariya Strauss / AlterNet

Why Did So Many Workers Vote for Walker in Wisconsin?

Jim Cavanaugh / Labor Notes

In Race For Better Cell Phone Service, Workers Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives

Ryan Knutson, Liz Day / ProPublica

Wage Theft Epidemic: Bosses Pocket 15 Percent of Workers' Pay

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

No on SEIU's Chicago School Deal

Orlando Sepúlveda / Socialist Worker

'When Workers Work Sick, It's Unhealthy for All of Us': New York's Battle for Paid Sick Leave

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

3 Lessons From the Victory for Sotheby's Workers

Gary Roland / Waging Nonviolence

Americans Love Class War!

Alex Pareene / Salon

Workers Win Battle Over Employer Crackdowns on Social Media

Bruce Vail / In These Times

Wisconsin's Recall Drama Down to Nail-Biting Finish

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Health Care System Leaves Patients Frustrated--Nurses Work for a Solution

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Scott Walker's Austerity Agenda Brings the Shock Doctrine to Wisconsin Universities

Eleni Schirmer, Lenora Hanson / Labor Notes

Victory for Workers at Opulent Art Auction House Sotheby's: Lockout Ends, Teamster Art Handlers Back at Work

Jenny Brown / Labor Notes

Workers Who Occupied Their Factory and Beat Bank of America Now On Their Way to Owning the Factory

Yana Kuchinoff / TruthOut.org

Will Brewing Corruption Scandals in Ohio Have an Impact on November's Election?

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Can Shareholder Activists Force the World's Biggest Oil Company to End Discrimination?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How Romney and Bain Capital Bankrupted One Firm, Fired All its Workers, and Pocketed $100 Million

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

Burned Alive at Work: American Workers Dying in Totally Preventable Accidents

Chris Hamby / The Center for Public Integrity

Koch Brothers' Americans For Prosperity Goes All Out in Wisconsin Recall--And Denies It!

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Message to Wisconsin: Fight the Power, Forget the Polls

Roger Bybee / In These Times

Success! How Progressives Stalled the Deregulation Agenda of Greedy Telecoms and ALEC

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

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