David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. September 5, 2008. Corporate honchos and bought-off lawmakers are trying to kill a proposal that makes it easier to join a union.
David Moberg, The Nation. September 1, 2008. Meet Working America: a 2.5 million online member organization created by the AFL-CIO with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times. August 19, 2008. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films teams up with the AFL-CIO and SEIU to make "McCain's Mansions: the Real Elitist."
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 8, 2008. Big business has prepared a war chest of at least $150 million to stop progressive economic legislation that would seriously tax the rich.
Angela Kelley, Huffington Post AlterNet: Immigration. August 7, 2008. "The U.S. needs a practical, fair, and reasonable solution to immigration that includes smart enforcement measures."
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. My grandfathers, like many other illegal immigrants, helped usher in the world's greatest period of working class prosperity.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 31, 2008. Opposition from growers has halted the implementation of a deal ensuring fairer treatment of Immokalee farmworkers.
Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. July 24, 2008. In an era when many unions rely on one-shot strategies, UNITE HERE's Hotel Workers Rising campaign is paying off.
Frei Betto, Latin America in Movement. July 16, 2008. The average price of food has tripled in the last twelve months. We may soon be buying our groceries from a boutique.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 8, 2008. Labor's leaders understand that immigrant workers are valuable as allies, not competitors, but they haven't done enough to educate the rank-and-file.
Amie Newman, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 18, 2008. Docs' resolution to ban home birth seen as "pushback" against talk show host.
Roger Horowitz, Labor Notes. June 17, 2008. The industry's human accounting standards have been changed to make beef and pork processing look far safer than it is.
Esther Kaplan, The Nation. June 3, 2008. The Service Employees International Union goes against the California Nurses Association and the dissidents within its ranks.
Chris Kutalik, Labor Notes. May 29, 2008. The longest major walkout since the GM strike of 1970 was considered by many UAW activists to be a watershed moment in the industry.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. May 20, 2008. Indian guest workers rebuilding New Orleans are striking to protest abusive work conditions.
Dave Johnson, Huffington Post. May 12, 2008. Security guards at Kaiser are supposed to be provided with health care after working for 90 days, but it turns out that many are not.
Gerry Hudson, AlterNet. May 1, 2008. The crisis facing our planet is one of historic proportions and will require an historically broad coalition to solve.
