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Blowing Their Tops

Miners, environmentalists clash over coal.

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Embedded with Organized Labor: Steve Early Book Tour

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Labor’s New Leader

The AFL-CIO stakes its future on Richard Trumka.

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In and Out of the Working Class

Radical economist and labor educator Michael Yates moves beyond the classroom to examine—with striking honesty—his own life.

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Dixie Media Versus Unions

A new book reveals how Southern media have strengthened the region's corporatocracy.

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Nelson Lichtenstein

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Battling Over Employee Free Choice

The fate of labor’s top legislative priority is in the Senate’s hands.

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Prairie Fire

A bitter labor conflict ultimately failed in Decatur, Ill., during the mid-'90s. But a new book argues that tactics developed there by locked-out workers strengthen today's labor movement.

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Flower Power

Colombian plantation workers are fighting an uphill battle to unionize and secure better working conditions.

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Labor Limbo

Philadelphia museum guards fighting for union recognition highlight the potential power of "card check."

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Students Won’t Sweat It

Under fire for alleged union-busting, Russell Athletic is losing university contracts around the country.

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A Government of Men, Not Laws

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard likes to say that Washington policymakers "treat the people who take a shower after… more

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Measuring Electoral Success

In the March 3 special primary election for the 5th congressional district seat in Illinois, formerly held by White… more

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The EFCA Battle is Joined

Unions and allies are fighting the anti-Employee Free Choice Act “Meltdown Lobby” with an IRS complaint and grassroots campaigns.

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SEIU Split Widens

And many worry about the consequences for California healthcare workers and the labor movement.

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Washington Reporters’ Mass Exodus

There's a problem with journalism when a newspaper lays off a reporter like Phil Dine. For 20 years, Dine… more

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Ready to Rumble

Workers and Corporate America battle over the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Victory for Smithfield Workers

A 16-year unionization campaign gets a happy ending.

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Hilda Solis: Great Choice for Labor

Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), President Obama's pick for labor secretary, could help restore dignity and respect to American workers.… more

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Making the Feds Model Employers

Obama must put a stop to worker abuse by private contractors.

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Republic’s Battle Cry

Workers occupying a closed Chicago factory are sending a strong message to Washington: protect workers' rights.

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An Injury to Eid is an Injury to All

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in The New Republic in September that "religious difference drives otherwise sane people crazy." In… more

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The Crisis of Wage Theft

Billions of dollars in wages are being illegally stolen from millions of workers each and every year, writes Kim Bobo, in this excerpt from her new book Wage Theft in America (The New Press)

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Origins of the Obama Machine

The farmworkers movement brought community organizing strategies to the electoral arena, writes Randy Shaw, in this excerpt from his new book

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Obama and the Union Vote

Polls suggest mandate for reform surpasses support for Obama

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Cesar Chavez and the Roots of Obama’s Field Campaign

In mid-October, Zack Exley wrote a compelling article on the Obama campaign's extremely effective "ground game" in Ohio. Comments… more

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Blueprint for a Real Secretary of Labor

In recent days, colleagues have asked me to write about the near-collapse of the economy. My first response was… more

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All Work, No Play

Vacation time shouldn't be the privilege of a few, but the right of all

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Americans Unwilling to Face Reality

It's not as though no one saw it coming. Here's the economist Michael Hudson, writing in the May 2006… more

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Remembering Those Other American Dreams

Democrats struggle to win blue-collar voters

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An Unfolding Crisis in the Wake of Mississippi ICE Raid

The workplace raid at the Howard Industries electronics plant in Laurel, Miss., was the largest in U.S. history

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Making Goliath Walk

"This is a David-and-Goliath confrontation, but we believe we'll have enough stones in the sling to knock this out."… more

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Ivory Tower Inc.

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher… more

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Five Years on the Hotel Picket Line

Directly west of Chicago's iconic Buckingham Fountain sits the Congress Hotel. Itself an icon during its heyday of the… more

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Main Street Squeeze

Pick your metaphor for the current state of American workers: Are they squeezed? Caught? Crunched? Three new books --… more

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Axle of Evil

Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing

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Lights! Camera! Collective Action!

The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age

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Treaty of Detroit Repealed

The new contracts demonstrate that companies without unions, global labor markets and corporate power are dictating the future for American autoworkers--even for those who are in a union

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Has the Change Led to Wins?

Not yet, but organizers from the seven unions that split from the AFL-CIO have big plans.

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Tobacco Stains

The global footprint of a deadly crop

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