Working In These Times

• Tuesday
  May 31

• Why Does the Chicago Teachers Union Care About Interest Rate Swaps?

  By Mike Elk

• Tuesday
  May 31

• Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 Offers Stark Reminder: Media Usually Side With Corporations, Police

  By Roger Bybee

• Monday
  May 30

• Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers

  By Kari Lydersen

• Saturday
  May 28

• This Week in Labor: New York Building Trades Workers Protest 20% Pay Cut

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  May 27

• ‘Guest Worker’ Trafficking: Can the Feds Really Deal With the Problem?

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  May 27

• Grocery Store Cleaners Enter Day 7 of Hunger Strike

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Friday
  May 27

• Wis. Court Blocks Gov. Walker’s Anti-Union Bill, as Unions Focus on Spreading Protests

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  May 26

• Massey Energy ‘Normalized Deviance’ Prior to West Virginia Mine Disaster: Report

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  May 26

• Why the Catholic Church Must Defend Workers’ Rights

  By John J. Sweeney

• Wednesday
  May 25

• Dock Management Sues Over Solidarity Shutdown—Is Settlement in the Works?

  By Josh Eidelson

• Wednesday
  May 25

• From U.S. to India, the Casualties of Coal

  By Kari Lydersen

• Wednesday
  May 25

• Did Housekeeper’s Union Membership Allow Her to Speak Out Against Strauss-Kahn?

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  May 25

• Labor in Palestine: The Work of Resistance Gets a New Push

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  May 24

• Utility Union Charges National Power Company With Illegal Employee Gag Rules

  By Mike Elk

• Tuesday
  May 24

• Is Richard Trumka Returning Labor to Its Social Movement Roots?

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  May 24

• Iran’s Simmering Labor Struggle

  By Stephen Franklin

• Monday
  May 23

• As GE Opens Nonunion Facility in Texas, Union Leader Sees Subtle Threat

  By Mike Elk

• Monday
  May 23

• Warehouse Workers File Second Lawsuit Against Chicago-Area Wal-Mart Contractors

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  May 23

• Democrats’ Polite, Insidious ‘Pro-Union’ Arm Twisting

  By Roger Bybee

• Sunday
  May 22

• This Week in Labor: Minneapolis Grocery Store Cleaners Launch Hunger Strike

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  May 20

• Trumka Hits Back at Right-Wing ‘Canvas of Cruelty’

  By David Moberg

• Friday
  May 20

• GOP Continues to Interfere With National Labor Relations Board

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  May 20

• In Asia, Raising the Wage Floor Toward Global Labor Justice

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  May 19

• IBEW Union Sides With Power Industry on Clean Air Rules

  By Kari Lydersen

• Thursday
  May 19

• America’s Healthcare Crisis is Getting Worse

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  May 19

• Card Check Bill for California Farm Workers Heads to Governor’s Desk

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Wednesday
  May 18

• Immigrant Workers’ Exploitation Highlights Perils of Job Placement Agencies

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  May 18

• Workforce Initiatives Put Brakes on Controversial Free Trade Deals—for Now

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  May 17

• Locked-Out Honeywell Workers Travel Far and Wide to Fight Company

  By Mike Elk

• Tuesday
  May 17

• After the Crisis, Rise of Worker Discrimination Is Breathtaking

  By Jonathan Tasini

• Monday
  May 16

• Chemical Industry Regulation Would Create, Not Kill Jobs

  By Kari Lydersen

• Sunday
  May 15

• Did Boeing’s Meet the Press Sponsorship Allow Gingrich to Lie About Company’s NLRB Case?

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  May 13

• This Week in Labor: 15,000 March On Wall Street

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  May 13

• U.S. Labor Advocates for Bahrain Workers Caught in the Crossfire

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  May 13

• Corporations, Federal ‘Reform’ Keep Shifting Healthcare Costs to Workers

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  May 12

• Congressman: Another Mine Disaster Needed to Pass Safety Legislation

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  May 12

• ‘Locked Out’ Savors Story of Rio Tinto Miners’ Hard-Fought Victory

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Thursday
  May 12

• Domestic Workers Form Historic Partnership With AFL-CIO

  By Kari Lydersen

• Wednesday
  May 11

• New York City Teachers Union Protests Education Cutbacks, Joins May 12 ‘Mobilization’

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  May 11

• Look Past Public Workers—the Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in Private Sector

  By Joe Burns

• Wednesday
  May 11

• On the Border, Obama Pivots on Immigration, Wavers on Real Change

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  May 10

• Obama Has Power to Stop Unionbusting With a Stroke of His Pen

  By Mike Elk

• Monday
  May 9

• Richard Trumka: Talking Loud and Saying Nothing

  By Mike Elk

• Monday
  May 9

• From Sudbury to Chicago, Complaints About ‘Blame the Worker’ Safety

  By Kari Lydersen

• Friday
  May 6

• This Week in Labor: AFL-CIO Offers Grim Daily Death Toll, Teamsters Lead Shareholder Reform Effort

  By Lindsay Beyerstein

• Friday
  May 6

• Chipotle Workers Under New Scrutiny by the Feds

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Friday
  May 6

• Watchdogs Probe Labor Abuses in China’s Tech Industry

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  May 5

• Republicans Threaten To Defund the National Labor Relations Board

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  May 5

• Faculty Unite to Unionize Via Card Check at University of Illinois at Chicago

  By Kari Lydersen

• Wednesday
  May 4

• Gap Between Rich and Poor Continues to Grow Across Industrialized World

  By Akito Yoshikane

• Wednesday
  May 4

• After Half-Decade Struggle, Rite Aid Workers Form Union at Giant Distribution Center

  By Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator

• Wednesday
  May 4

• Beyond the Media Radar, Egypt’s Arab Spring Pushes Forth

  By Michelle Chen

• Tuesday
  May 3

• Alleging Election Irregularities, Reform-Minded UC Grad Students Occupy Union Office

  By Mike Elk

• Monday
  May 2

• Will Progressives Get Behind Workers Fighting to Stop Concessions at GE?

  By Mike Elk

• Monday
  May 2

• From Racism to Lung Cancer, Workers Cope With Life in the Logistics Industry

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  May 2

• Government Muzzles Watchdogs, Silences Whistleblowers

  By Michelle Chen