Blue-Collar Republicans
Christopher Hayes : Republican Party
The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
2008
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Labor's New Push
David Moberg
Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Peace Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
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Firestone's Super Bowl Fumble
Ruthie Ackerman : Liberia
Few people watching the Firestone-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show are aware of the company's reputation in Liberia for harsh working conditions, child labor and environmental ruin.
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Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea
David Bacon : Mexico
If the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico succeed in smashing a miners' strike, the reverberations will be felt even across the US border.
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Beyond the Labor Board
Max Fraser
Partisan appointments to Bush's National Labor Relations Board have ensured it's virtually impossible for workers to get a fair shake.
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Noted.
The Editors
Guest blogging at The Nation.com, gazing into Kristol's ball, revisiting Hoover's roundup.
2007
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Writers of the World Unite
Luvh Rakhe : Internet & New Media
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Permalancers, Unite!
Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.
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WGA: Picket and Click It
Christopher Lisotta : Internet & New Media
As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.
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Writers Strike, Silence Falls
Barbara Ehrenreich : Television
As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's nothing but reality.
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Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Wages & Hours
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
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Father of History
Christopher Phelps : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Bettina Aptheker's recent memoir has incited fierce debate over her father s legacy.
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UAW R.I.P.?
Max Fraser : United Auto Workers (UAW)
To save the domestic auto industry, the UAW may end up killing itself.
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South Africa's Winter of Discontent
William Johnson : South Africa
As the gap widens between rich and poor, millions of black workers are challenging African National Congress rule. How did a victory against apartheid turn into class war?
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Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis : Argentina
Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.
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Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?
Liza Featherstone : Health Insurance
SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?
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Michael Moore's Sicko
Michael Moore's healthcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.
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Coming to America
The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.
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Laboring for Edwards
Marc Cooper : Electoral Politics
John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
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Murder in Monterrey
A labor organizer was beaten to death after exposing exploitative labor practices in the United States and Mexico.
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Workers, Not Guests
David Bacon : Immigration to the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using immigration control measures to retaliate against undocumented workers who stand up for their rights.
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Living-Wage Victory in LA
Low-wage workers in hotels near Los Angeles International Airport are the latest to benefit from the city's living-wage law, riding a wave of considerable political momentum.
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Heck-of -a-Job Myers?
Rick Perlstein : Immigration to the US
The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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