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OSHA to Retailers: Practice Safe Sales

By Lindsay Beyerstein Black Friday traditionally marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. With so many Americans… more

Stimulus Bucks for Green Job Training

By Lindsay Beyerstein Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis yesterday announced $5.8 million in green capacity building grants through… more

Your Boss Swears Your Job is Perfectly Safe

By Lindsay Beyerstein We're accustomed to reading statistics from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration about workplace… more

The Tempification of the American Workforce

By Lindsay Beyerstein The tempification of the American workforce continues apace. While job losses make headlines, we don't… more

‘Jobless Recovery’ is an Oxymoron

By Lindsay Beyerstein On paper, the worst recession in 70 years came to an end in the third… more

Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op

By Lindsay Beyerstein Big news from last week largely overlooked by the mainstream media: The United Steelworkers will… more

Landmark Nurses Union Deal Averts Swine Flu Strike

By Lindsay Beyerstein Late Friday, The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) reached an historic agreement with… more

DC Dispatch: Progressive Ideas in Air at ‘Making it America’ Meeting

WASHINGTON—Labor leaders, business organizations, public officials and citizen groups have gathered here today to discuss progressive solutions for… more

Nevada: A Good Place to be a Bad Boss

By Lindsay Beyerstein Nevada is a good place to be a bad boss. According to a new report,… more

McCain Slaps Hold on Crucial Pro-Labor NLRB Nominee

By Lindsay Beyerstein The associate general counsel of SEIU and the AFL-CIO is inching his way toward a… more

GOP House Candidate Would Co-Sponsor EFCA With Card Check

As a New York State Assemblywoman, DeDe Scozzafava established herself as a union-friendly Republican. As the GOP candidate… more

Outsourcing Bites Back: Hidden Cost of Military Contractors Balloons

By Lindsay Beyerstein The Department of Labor and Congress are grappling with a rapidly growing and hidden cost… more

NY-23: Special Election Divides the House of Labor

By Lindsay Beyerstein Organized labor is split over the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. The… more

Transport Workers Take Fight to Bloomberg

Transport Workers Union Local 100 is making an unusual foray into electoral politics with its bare-knuckle campaign against… more

Trades Union Council Steps on High Heels

By Lindsay Beyerstein Waitresses, airline attendants, sales people and bank employees in the UK and abroad are routinely… more

Honduran Labor Organizer Dead After Tear Gas Attack

By Lindsay Beyerstein The tense standoff in Honduras has entered its second week. The latest phase of the… more

Will Obama’s OSHA Nominee be the Right’s Next Smear Victim?

Industry-funded front groups are preparing to make a stink about Obama's nominee to head the Occupational Safety and… more

An Obama Quid Pro Quo for Labor’s Support?

"So long as you stand by the public option, we will stand with you," new AFL-CIO President Richard… more

Baucus Healthcare Bill Disappoints Labor

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Obama Red-Baiting is the New Black

On Saturday, CNN broadcast footage of "Tea Party" protesters in Washington D.C. "Demonstrators say that Obama is socialist,"… more

Why Not Cover Undocumented Migrants?

Last night, President Obama outlined his vision for healthcare reform before a special joint session of Congress. When… more

AFL-CIO Won’t Budge on Healthcare Reform ‘Absolute Musts’

Organized labor backed President Obama when he was campaigning for election with the promise of a public health… more

UFCW Squares Off Against Whole Foods

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey reignited an old feud with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) with… more

Labor Loses Its Champion: Ted Kennedy (1936-2009)

—"Working people aren’t getting their fair share of our economic growth. Their hard work is producing skyrocketing corporate… more

Bloomberg Was for Union Raise Before He Was Against it

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was shocked, shocked earlier this month to learn that a state mediation board… more

Taiwanese Workers Battle AIG Over $437M Pension Fund

Insurance agents at Nan Shan Life of Taiwan scored a preliminary victory in their battle to retain control… more

Strike Stops Chinese Steel Mill Privatization

Steel workers in China achieved a victory yesterday when the government of Henan Province … more

Netroots Nation: Bloggers Tour Modern Steel Mill

About two dozen progressive bloggers got a rare inside look at a modern steel mill in Braddock, PA,… more

Teabaggers Scapegoat SEIU for MO Town Hall Scuffle

Across the country, well-funded right wing activists are turning town hall meetings into battlegrounds in an attempt to… more

South Korean Strikers Withstand Paratrooper Assault

The South Korean police sent paratroopers in helicopters to roust strikers occupying an auto plant in Pyeongtaek yesterday.… more

Strike Snapshot: Workers United Local 1426

If you’ve ever bought a shrink-wrapped Tyson chicken, you’re probably familiar with the work of Workers United Local… more

Union 101: Why Unions Matter and How They Work

The entire labor movement is based on one simple idea. It’s so simple that maybe we don’t spell… more

In Solidarity, Labor Steps Up Pressure on Honduran Junta

Tomorrow marks the one-month anniversary of when soldiers raided the home of Mel Zelaya, the democratically elected president… more

Welcome to Union 101

A lot of progressives support unions with only the vaguest understanding of how these crucial institutions actually work.… more

The Shipping News: UPS-FedEx Battle Heats up on Captiol Hill

FedEx and United Parcel Service are locked in a bitter struggle over the right of FedEx’s non-airline employees… more

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Hangs in the Balance

Every day, countless New Yorkers head off to work entrusting their children, their aging loved ones, and their… more

Kiriakou and the Kite Runner

The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement. more

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Anthropologists on the Front Lines

The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns more

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Rudy Guiliani: Criminal or Liar?

An investigation into Guiliani's claims of familiarity with "intensive questioning" techniques more

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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet more

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A Resolution Too Far?

U.S.-Turkish relations, already strained by the war in Iraq, are being tested further by the controversial congressional resolution recognizing the 1915 genocide of Armenians. more

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Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq more

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Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies more

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Perverse Justice

Jose Padilla’s conviction raises questions about whether detainees who undergo extreme isolation can be given fair trials more

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Equating Stillbirths with Murders

Just how legally viable is Maryland's Viable Fetus Act? more

web only    abortion, gender, womens rights

At What Price Victory?

In order to pass their budget, House Democrats have proposed increasing the funding of a harmful abstinence-only program more

web only    gender, medical & health, politics