workers rights
Power, intimidation and jobs at play in VW union vote
February 18, 2014Before observers and commentators blame "backward or racist southerners" for voting no, it is useful to look at this narrow vote in the context of power and intimidation.
Read moreLabor launches campaign to raise wages across America
February 18, 2014We are declaring here and now that the labor movement is going to focus like a laser beam on raising wages for all American workers, union and non-union," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today.
Read moreNLRB OKs rules to streamline union election procedures
February 7, 2014Union leaders welcomed the NLRB's proposals. The right wing House GOP and the National Retail Federation screamed.
Read moreIn Mexico, independent glassworkers’ union fights for members
February 7, 2014It takes courage and persistence to be a member of a democratic union in Mexico, to fend off exploitative bosses, repressive officials and corrupt labor "leaders" as shown by the struggle of the SUTEIV.
Read moreMarxist economist Richard Wolff draws overflow crowds
February 4, 2014They flocked to hear the unapologetically self-avowed "Marxian economist" who has long toiled in the obscurity of academia and left circles.
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