Labor

Immigrants Manipulated into Giving Fingerprints

By Elena Shore / New America Media

Immigrant rights groups in LA are reporting that LAPD officers used handheld devices to scan the fingerprints of day laborers on the street corners.

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

By Janet Murguia / Huffington Post

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

By Mariya Strauss / AlterNet

Why Did So Many Workers Vote for Walker in Wisconsin?

By Jim Cavanaugh / Labor Notes

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

By Ryan Knutson, Liz Day / ProPublica

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

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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

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

Jenny Brown / Labor Notes

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

Eleni Schirmer, Lenora Hanson / 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

Creating Change Is the People's Job

Deepak Bhargava / YES! Magazine

What Can Labor Win if it Backs Obama's Re-Election?

Amy Dean / TruthOut.org

Building On Energy From Massive Protest Movement, Quebec Steelworkers Take On Rio Tinto

Jocelyn Desjardins / Labor Notes

Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm Work

Michelle Chen / AlterNet

Wisconsin Democrats Wrong to Avoid Campaigning on Labor Issues in Walker Recall

John Nichols / Madison Capital Times

Oregon's Assault on Teachers

Adam Sanchez / Socialist Worker

Is Job Security Real Security? Gainful Unemployment May Be A Workable Alternative

Shannon Hayes / YES! Magazine

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