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.
T. A. Frank, Washington Monthly. April 29, 2008. Presidential candidates are calling for tougher labor standards in trade agreements. But it's doubtful they could be enforced.
David Moberg, In These Times. April 24, 2008. The political fight developing within SEIU has broad implications for the labor movement and progressive politics.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. April 18, 2008. The government's policy toward unions is marked by the same political cowardice and worker repression that brought on the Ludlow Massacre.
Paul Krehbiel, Labor Notes. April 12, 2008. Members' grievances against SEIU officials have been mounting after President Andy Stern merged many locals into mega-locals.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 9, 2008. Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
