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Employee or Independent Contractor? Congress Investigates Employee Misclassification
Lindsay Beyerstein
Weekly Workers’ Round-Up: Thousands Protest Bloomberg’s Cuts, Spirit Airlines Pilots Strike
Jennifer Braudaway
Will Deepwater Horizon Families Get Their Due?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Johnson Controls: Bad Faith on Both Sides of Rio Grande
Roger Bybee
Driven by Globalization, Today’s Slave Trade Thrives at Home and Abroad
Michelle Chen
Black Shirt Friday Commemorates Railroad Worker Deaths
Kari Lydersen
Senate Fights For Billionaire Fund Managers’ Tax Breaks, Blocks Jobless Aid
Art Levine
Bob King Set to Become UAW President as Calls to Restore Concessions Loom (UPDATED)
Akito Yoshikane
Defending Workers From a Bad Rap: Challenging Criminal Background Checks
Michelle Chen
Chinese Sweatshop Model Challenged, but Rulers Strike Back
Roger Bybee
OSHA: Refineries Ignore Safety, Workers Die
Lindsay Beyerstein
Come March With Us: Congress Hotel Strikers Celebrate 7th Anniversary
Kari Lydersen
Union Deaths Rise Around World, as Recession Heightens Attacks on Labor Rights
Akito Yoshikane
The ‘Blame the Teacher’ Movement, and the Public-Sector Union Crisis
Richard Greenwald
As Teachers Struggle with Obama’s Reform Agenda, ‘Merit Pay’ Gets a Demerit
Michelle Chen
The ‘Beauty Bias’ at Work, and What Should Be Done About It
Lindsay Beyerstein
Hyatt Workers Stage National Actions against Billionaire Pritzkers
Carl Finamore
An Ugly Jobs Report, and a Complacent Congress
Roger Bybee
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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