Working In These Times

• Friday
  December 23

• Happy Holidays? Not for 200 Pacific Steel Workers in California

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Friday
  December 23

• Nepal’s Migrants Lured By Empty Promises, Trapped by Bosses Abroad

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  December 23

• The Best of Times and the Worst of Times, When It Comes to Healthcare

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  December 23

• The Immigration Debate at Year’s End: Conflict and Contradiction

  By Kari Lydersen

• Thursday
  December 22

• New NLRB Rule May Be High-Water Mark for Obama-Era Labor Reform

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  December 22

• When Democracy Becomes Disposable

  By Roger Bybee

• Wednesday
  December 21

• Flight Attendants Vote to ‘Keep it Virgin’—and Transport Workers Union Cries Foul

  By Mike Elk

• Wednesday
  December 21

• Oil Workers Rise Up in Kazakhstan, Face Brutal Crackdown

  By Michelle Chen

• Wednesday
  December 21

• Solidarity Inaction: Railroad Workers and the Occupy Movement

  By Mike Elk

• Wednesday
  December 21

• Wage Theft at Mom and Pop Stores—and How to Fight It

  By Kari Lydersen

• Tuesday
  December 20

• The Antidote for Stupidity of Shipping Tax-Dollar-Financed Jobs Overseas

  By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

• Tuesday
  December 20

• Will the NLRB Let Graduate Student Workers Down Again?

  By Josh Eidelson

• Monday
  December 19

• Baltimore’s United Workers Disrupt Christmas Shopping, Demand Stable Jobs, Better Wages

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  December 19

• Keeping Kids Out of Silo Deathtraps: Labor Dept. on Verge of Rule Change

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  December 16

• Good News on Horizon for America’s Growing In-Home Care Workforce

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Friday
  December 16

• Occupy Harvard—and Other Campus Groups—Back HEI Hotel Workers’ Rights

  By David Moberg

• Friday
  December 16

• With Anti-Immigrant Law, Alabama is Again Ground Zero for Civil Rights

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  December 15

• Obama Nominates Two to NLRB. Will GOP Block Them and Grind Agency to Halt?

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  December 15

• Burma’s New Labor Law: Built to Fail or Shifting Toward Democracy?

  By Michelle Chen

• Wednesday
  December 14

• After Hershey Scandal, State Dept. to Review Work Visa Program—But Advocates Want More

  By Mike Elk

• Wednesday
  December 14

• Brazilian Blowout Still a Threat, Feds Say

  By Kari Lydersen

• Tuesday
  December 13

• Solidarity Divided: Occupy Protesters Shut Down Ports Without Union’s Support

  By Mike Elk

• Tuesday
  December 13

• End of the Newt & Andy Show? Breaking Up Is So Hard…

  By Steve Early

• Tuesday
  December 13

• Union-Buster to Managers: Fear the New Election Rules—and Hold 5 Meetings

  By Josh Eidelson

• Monday
  December 12

• As Durban Dust Settles, Pondering Emissions Reductions and Jobs

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  December 12

• Food Industry Brings Bitter Harvest to Child Cocoa Laborers

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  December 9

• Under Cloud of Bankruptcy, CWA Will Try (Again) to Unionize American Airlines Workers

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  December 9

• Embarrassment of Riches: Conflict Diamond Regulation Breaks Down

  By Michelle Chen

• Friday
  December 9

• Wis. Firm’s Move to Replace Striking Workers Sparks Statewide Solidarity

  By Roger Bybee

• Friday
  December 9

• Forty Verizon Workers Fired for Strike Activity

  By R. M. Arrieta

• Thursday
  December 8

• Amid Fruitless Corporate Tax Breaks, Gov. Walker Grows Unpopular

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  December 8

• As Struggling Town Considers New Mine, Ex-Miners Look Back With Ambivalence

  By Kari Lydersen

• Wednesday
  December 7

• 25,000 Workers Strike Across Europe

  By Patrick Glennon

• Wednesday
  December 7

• Massey Mine Explosion Settlement Doesn’t Address Basic Problem: Company’s Anti-Unionism

  By Mike Elk

• Wednesday
  December 7

• Health Reform Devolves Into ‘Unaffordable Under-Insurance’

  By Roger Bybee

• Tuesday
  December 6

• A String of Slaughterhouse Successes for UFCW

  By Kari Lydersen

• Monday
  December 5

• Under Pressure From Congress, Railroad Workers Union Accepts Concessions

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  December 2

• Jobless Rate Drops, but Pain, Despair Persist In Weak Economy

  By David Moberg

• Friday
  December 2

• Steelworkers Union: Cooper Locked Us Out After We Boosted Company Profits

  By Mike Elk

• Friday
  December 2

• Wal-Mart Circles Indian Markets, and Indians Push Back

  By Michelle Chen

• Thursday
  December 1

• US Labor Leaders Have “Stockholm Syndrome”

  By Mike Elk

• Thursday
  December 1

• Occupy the Hood: Fighting for Those ‘at the Bottom of the Bottom’

  By Roger Bybee

• Thursday
  December 1

• American Airlines Union Questions Bankruptcy Motive

  By Josh Eidelson