Working In These Times

• Thursday
  December 31

• UN Gives Nod to Worker Co-Ops, as Cleveland Communities Embrace Model

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  December 30

• San Diego Cab Drivers Celebrate Holidays with a Strike

  By Kari Lydersen

• Wednesday
  December 30

• Unions Promote Terrorism: Just Ask Sen. DeMint

  By Michelle Chen

• Wednesday
  December 30

• What If the Daily Grind Were Just Four Days A Week?

  By Michelle Chen

• Saturday
  December 26

• Mining Programs Provide Job Training for Inmates. But Are They Worth It?

  By Emily Udell

• Friday
  December 25

• Netroots vs. Unions: Labor Pushing to Fix Rather Than Torpedo Senate Health Bill

  By Art Levine

• Friday
  December 25

• ‘Revolutionary Lemonade Stand’ Makes Labor Struggles Fashionable

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  December 25

• In Bungled Reform Battle, Building Blocks for Progressive Healthcare Workforce

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  December 24

• The Dollar General Deal: Report Alleges Abuses at Chinese Plants

  By Stephen Franklin

• Thursday
  December 24

• Upstart Union Deals Blow to SEIU, Raises Prospects for Future Fights

  By David Moberg

• Wednesday
  December 23

• Relief for Asbestos Mining Town Buried in Health Care Bill

  By Michelle Chen

• Wednesday
  December 23

• Uptick in Japan’s Union Members Mirrors U.S. Trend

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Tuesday
  December 22

• The Gift America Needs Most: Manufacturing

  By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

• Tuesday
  December 22

• Urban Communities Seek Lift Through Living Wage

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  December 22

• One Year After: Republic Workers Face Hard Times With High Hopes

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  December 21

• More News From the Jobless Recovery: Workers Getting Less for Doing More

  By Art Levine

• Sunday
  December 20

• HandyDART Drivers Strike For Pensions

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Saturday
  December 19

• Ole Ole! Chicago Restaurant Workers Begin Negotiations

  By Kari Lydersen

• Saturday
  December 19

• The Economist’s Absurd Attack on ‘Spoiled’ Public-Sector Workers

  By Mischa Gaus

• Friday
  December 18

• End-of-Week Wrap-Up: Janitors, Housekeepers and Rabbis

  By Diana Novak

• Friday
  December 18

• Fletcher Jr. and Lichtenstein on ‘SEIU’s Civil War’

  By Jeremy Gantz

• Friday
  December 18

• Union Leaders Attack Senate Health Bill, Push for Tougher Reforms

  By Art Levine

• Friday
  December 18

• When Miners March: West Va. Coalfield Tales Still Resonate

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  December 18

• One Year After Republic: Workers’ Hidden Sit-Down Strike Tradition

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  December 17

• SF Officials: New State Rule Locks Hardworking People Out Of Work

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Thursday
  December 17

• Laborers’ Union Takes On Homebuilding Giant Over Lending Practices

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  December 17

• Who Are the Worst Corporate Scrooges of All?

  By Stephen Franklin

• Tuesday
  December 15

• Brass Tacks: Will Senate Bill Make Healthcare More Affordable?

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  December 15

• Labor Has Only Begun to Organize Online

  By Richard Negri

• Tuesday
  December 15

• SEIU: Obama Workplace Immigration Enforcement Flawed

  By David Moberg

• Monday
  December 14

• Progressives Still Pushing for Public Option As Reform Roadblocks Mount

  By Art Levine

• Monday
  December 14

• NYC Transit Workers Hold on to Challenged Raises

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  December 11

• Will New Financial Reforms Be Enough to Prevent Another Meltdown?

  By Art Levine

• Friday
  December 11

• The Strange Hogan Family/Teamsters Saga Continues

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  December 11

• Labor Seeing Green After Copenhagen Climate Talks

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  December 11

• Warehouse Workers File Class-Action Wage Theft Lawsuit

  By David Moberg

• Friday
  December 11

• The Climate Problem Is a Corporate Problem

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  December 10

• Blacks, Latinos Bear Brunt of Joblessness

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Thursday
  December 10

• Supreme Court Hands Major Victory to Rail Workers—and Labor Lawyer Geoghegan

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  December 10

• Where Have All the Labor Writers Gone?

  By Stephen Franklin

• Thursday
  December 10

• SLIDESHOW: In Oakland, Hunger Comprises All Races

  By David Bacon

• Wednesday
  December 9

• Coal vs. Climate: In Copenhagen, Miners’ Union Tries to Balance Interests

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  December 9

• The Good and Bad News in Labor Dept.‘s New Agenda

  By Celeste Monforton

• Wednesday
  December 9

• NYC Reformers Rise Again—In Transit And Teamsterdom

  By Steve Early

• Tuesday
  December 8

• Brand-New Nurses Union Aims to Ramp Up Organizing, Push for Single-Payer

  By David Moberg

• Tuesday
  December 8

• Working Families’ Bailout Needed Urgently. But Who Will Make it Happen?

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  December 8

• It’s Official: Three Unions Merge to Form Nurses ‘Super Union’

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Tuesday
  December 8

• A Penny for Our Work: Florida Farmworkers Protest Grocer

  By Emily Udell

• Monday
  December 7

• Senators Move To Shred Public Option, Fool Progressives While Unions Fight Back

  By Art Levine

• Monday
  December 7

• Old Criminal Records Are Life Sentences in Job Market

  By Seth Wessler

• Sunday
  December 6

• Forging International Labor Solidarity in Wartime No Easy Task

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  December 4

• Labor Praises Jobs Summit, Calls For Action—But Obama Sending Mixed Signals on Major Spending

  By Art Levine

• Friday
  December 4

• Unemployment Toll: $1 Trillion in Lost Wages

  By David Moberg

• Friday
  December 4

• Working in the Shadows: Undercover Writer Sheds Light on Immigrant Labor

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  December 4

• Guns and Butter: Labor Takes on Afghanistan

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  December 3

• Grassroots Movement Grows in Mexico, as Unionists Escalate Opposition to Government

  By Micah Uetricht

• Thursday
  December 3

• Paid Sick Day Fight Pits Mother Nature vs. CEOs

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  December 3

• Deja Vu: Fearing Unrest, Goldman Bankers Packing Heat

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  December 3

• Black, Urban Neighborhoods are Unemployment’s Epicenter

  By Stephen Franklin

• Thursday
  December 3

• Baseball Players Association Is Rarest of Things: A Strong Union

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  December 2

• Progressives’ Memo To Obama: How To Create Jobs

  By David Moberg

• Wednesday
  December 2

• How We Are Part of the Sweatshop Economy

  By Richard Greenwald

• Wednesday
  December 2

• Workers Give Rite Aid CEO the Raspberry for Unionbusting

  By Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator

• Wednesday
  December 2

• We Need a Manufacturing Strategy—And CEOs Agree

  By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

• Tuesday
  December 1

• Stupak: A Massive Headache for Organized Labor

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  December 1

• Another Slaughterhouse Hazard: Pig Brain Mist

  By Emily Udell

• Tuesday
  December 1

• Reevaluating Immigration Reform: What’s it Worth?

  By Michelle Chen