Labor

Elected officials join fight for NUMMI’s future

September 9, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

“I was thinking I’d like to go work at the plant, with him,” Shaheem Broughton said, glancing toward his father, when a reporter asked him what he’d like to do after high school. “Now I may...

Secretary Solis: End economic injustice, workplace abuse

September 9, 2009 By John Bachtell

Through eight years of the right-wing Bush administration, the secretary of labor helped lead the administration’s war against organized labor. The only time the labor secretary interacted with labor leaders was to threaten and scold. So...

The grim state of young workers

September 8, 2009 By Jake Blumgart

This week the AFL-CIO released a hefty 44-page report on the state of America’s young workers. Its autumnal publication date was no doubt purposeful—this isn’t light summer reading.

Two Labor Day wishes

September 5, 2009 By John Wojcik

If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.

Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change

September 5, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...