Today's Verizon shareholder meeting in Huntsville, Alabama was disrupted six separate times by members of the 99% Power coalition, part of the 99% Spring movement.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- A bill that would punish American companies for sending their customer call centers overseas has caused an uproar in India and the Phili...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- Saying they hope to stem the tide of jobs heading overseas, legislators introduced a bipartisan bill Wednesday in the House that would p...
Will Marshall | Posted 01.30.2012
AT&T is a big company, which perhaps explains why federal regulators are ganging up to block its proposed merger with T-Mobile. Big must be bad, right?
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.02.2011
The union says it's because of public pressure. The phone giant says it's a "fairly standard" move done because the "timing was right." Whatever the r...
Edward Flattau | Posted 09.27.2011
When states' rights clash with Congressional Republicans' ideological agenda, they can reverse field on a dime and become stalwart centrists. The double standard is very much on display in the enforcement of federal pollution laws.
Nathan Newman | Posted 08.23.2011
In an era when workers rights are on the chopping block even in the public sector, this is a chance to strengthen labor rights in the private sector, where a multi-decade war on the labor movement has decimated most unions.
Art Brodsky | Posted 08.23.2011
What happens when unions, or otherwise well-meaning progressive groups, fall in with the corporations, out of naivete or other reasons?
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.26.2011
There's only one thing that could stop this deal -- a strong dose of reality, and AT&T isn't counting on that particular intervention.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Two large social conservative groups have added their names to a growing boycott of next year's Conservative Political Action Conference over the orga...
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011
Amid all the bad news for workers last week, what was missed is that 3,000 workers with Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of US Airways, voted to become members of the Communication Workers of America.
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011
Why would SEIU, which has risen to prominence during the last 25 years in part by organizing janitors, be interested in organizing bank workers?
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
The phone and cable business appears to be "recession-proof," even as these companies do nothing to prevent their hardworking employees from feeling the effects of the lingering recession.
HuffPost Citizen Reporting | ANDREA MEYER | Posted 05.25.2011
Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team Conference on World Affairs: Start-up America "I'm not an entrepreneur -- I'm an instigator of entrepre...
HuffPost Citizen Reporting | WREN SIEGEL | Posted 05.25.2011
Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team A packed Macky Auditorium was treated on Tuesday night to a truly world-class performance as part o...
Sue Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011
Broadcasters are licensed to "serve the public interest..." If they do not, they should have their licenses stripped away. It's a rule that both the corporate owners and the FCC prefer to ignore.
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
We bailed out the banks because of the risk their failure posed to the entire economic system. The systemic risk of unused and traumatized human capital is just as real and just as profound.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011
Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011
It will probably be months before we know the outcome of the Waxman-Markey bill; in the meantime, it appears that more alliances of strange bedfellows will emerge.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.03.2012