Working In These Times

• Friday
  October 29

• November 2, Creative Destruction and ‘Repealing the 20th century’

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  October 29

• State Ballot Initiatives Ensure Employee Free Choice Act Stays Dead

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  October 28

• Unionbusting Firm Likens Organizers to Terrorists

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  October 28

• The Wage Disparity is (Not Quite) Worse Than You Think (Updated)

  By Jeremy Gantz

• Thursday
  October 28

• How to Restore the Power of Unions?

  By Joe Burns

• Thursday
  October 28

• Recession’s Side Effects: Fewer Dead Workers—But GOP Poised to Gut OSHA

  By Art Levine

• Wednesday
  October 27

• On Verge of Victory in New York, Cuomo Announces War Against Unions

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  October 27

• Baltimore Workers File Class-Action Suit Over ESPN Zone Closure

  By Kari Lydersen

• Tuesday
  October 26

• Coming Soon to America: Big Push for Austerity

  By Roger Bybee

• Monday
  October 25

• Jimmy John’s Workers Narrowly Reject Union—and Underscore Potential Power of EFCA

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Monday
  October 25

• Airline Profits Soar, Leaving Passengers Sour & Employees Sore

  By Carl Finamore

• Monday
  October 25

• Workers, and Labor Strategy, on the Move as Goods Transport Industry Spreads Out

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  October 22

• NFL Collision: Management Control vs. Player Safety

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  October 22

• Immokalee Workers Win, Again!

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  October 22

• Zambia Mine Shooting Blights Chinese ‘Development’ in Africa

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  October 21

• Honeywell Spending More To Keep Workers Locked Out Than Cost of Their Demands

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  October 21

• NFL Crackdown on Violent Hits Won’t Stop Football’s Concussion Problem

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  October 21

• Beset by GOP, Obama and Labor Mount Quixotic Drive for Infrastructure Bills

  By Art Levine

• Wednesday
  October 20

• UAW Members Protest Two-Tier Wages at GM Plant

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  October 20

• Recession Ebbs, but Misery Piles on for Families in Poverty

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  October 19

• Labor Launches Massive Electoral Effort. Will Dems Return the Favor?

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  October 19

• Why Are Sweatshops So Invisible? One Answer: The Media

  By Richard Greenwald

• Monday
  October 18

• Kohler’s New Demands Bring to Mind Company’s History of Labor Struggle

  By Roger Bybee

• Monday
  October 18

• Jenna Jameson Calls for Porn Star Union After Actor’s Positive HIV Test

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Monday
  October 18

• Immokalee Workers Win Over Major Tomato Grower, Boost Wages

  By Kari Lydersen

• Saturday
  October 16

• Weekly Workers’ Round-Up: Sodexo & French Oil Strikes, Unions Get Out Vote & Miners’ Aftermath

  By Alexandra Markowski

• Saturday
  October 16

• Obama Admin To Investigate Chinese ‘Green Tech’ Trade Violations

  By David Moberg

• Saturday
  October 16

• Trade Unionists Speak Out Against FBI Attacks on Civil Liberties

  By Joe Burns

• Friday
  October 15

• San Francisco’s Hotel Frank(enstein) puts on Horror Show for Employees

  By Carl Finamore

• Friday
  October 15

• Under Obama’s Reforms, Can We Restore Community to Community College?

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  October 15

• Positive HIV Test Puts Porn Valley on Ice

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  October 15

• ‘Waste Land’ Documentary’s Portrait of Life in Brazilian Dump Comes Up Short

  By Kari Lydersen

• Thursday
  October 14

• Rescued Chilean Miners Greeted as Heroes—but They’re Also Victims

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  October 14

• The Pension Pinch: Public-Sector Unions Grapple With Rhetoric and Rollbacks

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Thursday
  October 14

• GOP Candidates Hand Dems Winning Issue: The Minimum Wage

  By Art Levine

• Thursday
  October 14

• Rite Aid Workers Take Action Against Proposed Health Insurance Rip-Off

  By Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator

• Wednesday
  October 13

• AFL-CIO’s ‘Job Tracker’ Continues Electoral Season Attention to Corporate Offshori

  By David Moberg

• Wednesday
  October 13

• Sandy Pope: The Woman Who Would Rule the Teamsters

  By Stephen Franklin

• Wednesday
  October 13

• Foxconn’s Global Empire Reflects a New Breed of Sweatshop

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  October 12

• How to Keep Congress: An Anti-Corp, Anti-Free-Trade Message

  By Jonathan Tasini

• Tuesday
  October 12

• Siding With Banks on Foreclosures? Dems Must Learn 4 Key Lessons

  By Roger Bybee

• Monday
  October 11

• Violence Against Honduran Resistance Movement, Unionists Continues

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  October 11

• Paycheck Fairness Act Poised to Beef Up Women’s Rights at Work

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  October 8

• Another Corporate Squeeze: Profitable Kohler Co. Pushes Drastic Concessions

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  October 8

• Victory for UFCW in Penn. Packinghouse Campaign

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  October 8

• China ‘Currency War’ Hints at Growing Labor Tensions on Both Sides

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  October 7

• SEIU Scores Victory, Faces Election Challenge, At Kaiser Hospitals

  By David Moberg

• Thursday
  October 7

• Do ‘Mini-Med’ Insurers Gouge Low-Wage Workers?

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Thursday
  October 7

• Labor Unions a Key to Happiness, New Report Says

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Thursday
  October 7

• Six Months After Massey Coal Disaster, Miners Still Dying, Oversight Failing

  By Art Levine

• Wednesday
  October 6

• Strikes Still Rare in America, Despite Employers’ Offensive in Rough Economy

  By Joe Burns

• Wednesday
  October 6

• America’s ‘Plutonomy’ Drives Warped Electoral Season

  By Roger Bybee

• Wednesday
  October 6

• Hard Times after Hard Time for the Formerly Incarcerated

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  October 5

• Rep. Gutierrez: ASFCME President McEntee is ‘Disgrace to the Labor Movement’

  By Mike Elk

• Tuesday
  October 5

• My Dream With Anderson Cooper and SEIU Boss Gus Bevona

  By Ray Abernathy

• Tuesday
  October 5

• Serving While Sick: Germs Spread by Restaurant Workers’ Lack of Healthcare, Paid Time Off

  By Micah Uetricht

• Monday
  October 4

• National Nurses United Jumps Into Nev. Race With Biggest Ever Union Campaign Expenditure

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Monday
  October 4

• Police Uprising in Ecuador: Labor Dispute or Attempted Coup?

  By Kari Lydersen

• Sunday
  October 3

• Impressive ‘One Nation’ Rally Offers One Clear Message: Vote Democratic in November

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  October 1

• Another Missed Opportunity: Anti-Offshoring Bill Could Have Been Boon for Dems

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  October 1

• Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  October 1

• Baltimore’s Inner Harbor: From ‘Poverty-Zone’ to Economic Human Rights Zone?

  By Kari Lydersen