Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2009. Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.
Milagros Melendez-Vela, New America Media. June 16, 2009. In 2008, 21 workers graduated from a new training program in Maryland. This year the graduating class increased by 70 percent.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2009. Anti-worker and anti-EFCA, the momentum to Stop Starbucks' problematic anti-labor practices is building.
Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet: PEEK. March 31, 2009. Today only 8 percent of Americans belong to a union. Are unions still relevant? Or relics of a bygone age?
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. January 22, 2009. "Because there have been very few plant occupations in the U.S. since the 1930s, we needed to look to workers' struggles in other countries."
Art Levine, In These Times AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 5, 2009. It is up to Obama to help undo the damage eight years of George Bush did to American workers.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. February 7, 2008. Seal-the-border hysteria is everywhere. Instead of blaming immigrants for America's problems, let's look at executives on both sides of the border.
David Moberg, In These Times. June 23, 2007. America is the richest country in the world -- so why does this country deny its workers mandated paid vacations and sick days?
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. June 20, 2007. The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America's color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD's real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive. October 27, 2006. CEOs use shame and intimidation to keep workers "productive," but the real shame is on executives who make eight-figure incomes while their lowest-paid employees trudge between food banks.
