The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Banking Goes Postal

Sixty-four unions and community groups are demanding a banking public option—at the post office.

David Moberg

Labor

An Oil Worker & a Union Staffer Explain Why 1,000s of Oil Workers Across the Country Are On Strike

David Bacon

Labor

If Teachers Can’t Make Their Unions More Democratic and Social Justice-Minded, Public Ed Is Doomed

Bob Peterson

Labor

Canada’s Supreme Court Just Enshrined Public Sector Workers’ Right to Strike

Gerard Di Trolio

Feature

It Wasn’t About Oil, and It Wasn’t About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book not only interrogates the motivations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but also reveals a cautionary tale for the present.

Danny Postel

Labor

Michigan GOP State Rep Aims to Outlaw Key Measure Ensuring Working People Benefit from Development

Jonathan Brozdowski

Labor

Did Jimmy John’s Fire Yet Another Worker for Supporting a Union?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Oil Striker: “None of us wants to be the next person to lose his life for no good reason”

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Striking Oil Workers Say They’re Fighting Deadly Working Conditions

Rebecca Burns