Labor

Photo of the month

August 18, 2006

Nick Kaleba of Press Associates Inc. submitted several photos depicting a Chicago rally against a pending National Labor Relations Board ruling that could make nurses “supervisors” and leave them ineligible for union protection. The picture above,...

AFL-CIO, day laborers in watershed pact

August 18, 2006

Going to work, getting paid, coming home in one piece and walking your neighborhood with dignity is the goal of a new “watershed” partnership between the AFL-CIO and a network of 140 immigrant worker centers in...

Summer books and web sites

August 11, 2006

For your summer reading and surfing pleasure:“An Unreasonable Woman” by Diane Wilson (published by Chelsea Green). A true autobiographical story that is as engaging as a good novel. Written by a fourth-generation commercial fisherwoman in Texas...

Anti-capitalist classic

August 11, 2006

Movie Review The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel PG-13, 119 min., 2006 As I left the theater, I thought, I hated this movie. Yet it was one of the best movies I have seen...

The stroke of a corporate pen

August 11, 2006

Has the stroke of a corporate media pen attempted to define “working class” away in your city? Once again, it has in mine. A June 23 article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press illustrates the point...