With the recall election for Walker coming up on June 5, every little development, every possible indicator of how the public mood is shifting, can cause ecstasy or agony.
If unions are going to be involved in electoral politics this year, what can they expect to win? And is Washington even relevant to progressive organizing efforts?
It should be no surprise that on America’s farms, many women are treated as less than human, since not even the government sees them as worthy of respect under the law.
John Nichols, Madison Capital Times. May 24, 2012.
Walker knows that a recall election in a closely divided state is about maximizing appeal to the base, not softening messages and avoiding issues. Why don't Dems?
In this excerpt from the new book "Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America," Michelle Chen looks at young workers from Egypt to Wisconsin.
In Oregon, activists are rejuvenating a campaign to win a health care system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.
A dramatic and bitter labor conflict has played out in Muscatine, Iowa in recent years, though without the prominence or massive community support of a century ago.
The ability of NYSNA nurses to chart their own course, ensuring patient care and bedside nursing are priorities, is a reminder that unions can change based on member involvement.
New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.
A former child farmworker and other activists are working to bring farmworker kids out of the shadows and get them the same protections as kids in other industries.
Geopolitics turned humanitarian workers and refugees into hostages of a budget war that makes life for the community absurdly hard, from seeing a doctor to earning a paycheck.
Unless the spirit of the last year continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.
G-8 leaders may seclude themselves at Camp David, but National Nurses United and groups will continue with their plans for a massive rally and protest on May 18 in Chicago.
It’s still too early to tell whether Tesoro’s demands will force a strike, but one thing is clear: USW members at Tesoro aren’t willing to pay for management’s mistakes.
At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this week outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes.
