Labor

We Have Less Maternity Leave Than Pakistan? 5 Things That Would Make Your Job Humane

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Everyone's talking about work-life balance, but here are some concrete ways we might actually achieve it.

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The Labor Law Reform We Need--And How to Win It

By Rand Wilson / Labor Notes

Screwed in Scranton: Firefighters Pay Slashed to Minimum Wage

By Roger Bybee / In These Times

The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union

By Sara Robinson / AlterNet

How to Get People to Go After Bankers and Financiers and Stop Attacking Public Employees

By Stephen Lerner, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company

Fast Food Workers Launch Strikes Across New York City

America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It

How Walmart and Other Huge Companies Support Horrific Conditions That Kill Workers

Labor

So-Called Fiscal Cliff Is Baloney; Our Economy Can Recover if Obama Focuses on What We Really Need: Jobs!

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

How Banks and Politicians Let One Company Come Back from the Dead to Keep Abusing Workers

Josh Eidelson / AlterNet

If They're Going to Target Romney for Outsourcing, Democrats Ought to Stop Enabling It

Gary Younge / Comment Is Free

Deporting the Hand That Feeds Us: How Anti-Immigrant Laws Are Causing a Farm Labor Shortage

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Don't Blame Technology For The Shrinking Middle Class

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research

Rush Limbaugh Thinks the Unemployed Need to Suffer More

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

ACLU Offers Rebuttal to Mark Ames Article About Human Rights Groups and Labor Unions

Steve Shapiro / AlterNet

Restoring Trust in the American Economy: The Real World v. The Confidence Fairy

Paul Davidson / AlterNet

Black Lung Is Back: Easily Cheated Regulations and Little Oversight Lead to Severe Cases in Young Miners

Chris Hamby / IWatch News

The Great Capitalist Heist: How Paris Hilton's Dogs Ended Up Better Off Than You

Gerald Friedman / AlterNet

Not Just Foxconn: Looking Into the Shadows of Apple's Factory Empire

Michelle Chen / In These Times

A Union Grows in Brooklyn

Brian Pickett / Labor Notes

Creating a Workers' Resistance Movement

Hetty Rosenstein / Labor Notes

Destroying Communities, Abusing Workers: What's (Still) The Matter With Wal-Mart

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Occupying Chicago Workers' Fight to Start Cooperative Continues

Yana Kunichoff / TruthOut.org

Bain Capital Keeps Shipping Jobs to China--Does Romney Have Anything to Say About That?

William Lineberry / In These Times

How Do We Get More Women Into The Sciences?

Michael Keller / Txchnologist

ConEdison Puts New York's Power at Risk During Heat Wave with Lockout of Workers

Michelle Chen / AlterNet

We Were Supposed to Have a 15 Hour Work Week by Now! How to Stop People From Working All the Way to the Grave

Robert Skidelsky / The Guardian

8 Ways America's Headed Back to the Robber-Baron Era

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

There is No Substitute for Organizing: How Unions Might Help Win Future Battles

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Jane McAlevey / The Nation

Bipartisan Support for Romney's Business Past Should Scare Us All

Stephen Lerner / AlterNet

Job Insecurity: It's the Disease of the 21st Century -- And It's Killing Us

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Teamster Sympathy Strikes Defeat Lockout

Jane Slaughter / Labor Notes

Why We Desperately Need to Revitalize the Labor Movement and Take Power Back from Corporations

Mark Brenner / Labor Notes

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