In this week's New Yorker, there is a great article about changes in thinking and theory in the Chicago school of economics, which for 60 years has been the theoretical foundation for unfettered free market capitalism. Remember Milton Friedman -- "there is no free lunch" (unless you're a lobbyist or...

This piece is co-authored by Courtney Pecquex of AFGE

The thwarted terrorist plot on Christmas Day aboard a Northwest Airlines flight renewed the debate about how safe our skies are and the ability of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) to protect the traveling public from terrorist attacks.

The one thing...

A front page story in the Jan. 2 issue of the Washington Post gives a damning report on George Bush's economic policy and what happened to our country during the last decade, the decade of the aughts.

Put succinctly, the decade was a disaster for America's working families.

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The history of America is our common struggle for a more perfect union, to resolve the contradictions between the promise of America and our gaps in human rights. America did not become great because we feared change. America became great because regular and average people fought to make America better...

On December 7, 2009, in Phoenix, AZ, Stewart Acuff, of the National AFL-CIO, praised the unprecedented move by the leadership of the California Nurses Association (CNA), Massachusetts Nurses, and the United American Nurses (UAN), to merge into one union -- the National Nurses Union (NNU), affiliated with the AFL-CIO. In...

More signs the conservatives and the Republican Party are in trouble - conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wrote November 29th edition of the Washington Post about a new ten point conservative checklist that candidates will have to meet to be endorsed by the Republican Party. How far will they...

Last night's scoring of the Senate healthcare bill -- which includes a public option -- by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is great news for progressives and all who believe in healthcare as a right and not a privilege. The CBO announced that the Senate bill will cost 848 billion...

In this morning's Washington Post, DNC Chairman and Governor Tim Kaine criticized Creigh Deeds' gubernatorial campaign for abandoning the Democratic base.

The electoral losses on November 3, 2009 were disappointing to trade unionists, progressives, and Democrats. To lose a Governor's race in a solidly Democratic state like New Jersey...

It is beyond doubt that we are in a potentially historic moment of great change. In the last two years we've made huge change in America. Just four or five years ago after George W's re-election how many of us thought that in 2008 we would elect as President a...

It is more and more fun to read the newspaper stories, articles, blog posts, and the rest about the demise of conservatism and/or the Republican Party.

It is no wonder there is so much speculation. Just watch John Boehner or Mitch McConnell or the nightly news or catch a clip...

Just a year ago we trade unionists, progressives, and Americans of good will made history with the election of an African-American President--something many of us never thought possible --...

It is so important to remember 9-11 and the union brothers and sisters who died that day. As you know, a lot of union brothers and sisters dies that day--members of HERE who worked in the restaurant, SEIU members, and every first responder was a union member--bus drivers who ATU...

Some of us progressives mistakenly thought that when Barack Obama and his campaign and mandate for change won overwhelmingly last November and we picked up seats in the House and when Al Franken became the 60th Democrat in the Senate that the new government would enact the change that was...

The dog days of August have arrive, Washington has mostly cleared out and neither health care reform nor the Employee Free Choice Act have been passed. The Republicans, the Hard Right, and Corporate America are doing all they can to defeat them both. And they are being more than ably...

I was on Fox News last week doing an interview with right-wing talking head Stuart Varney. He began what became a very hostile interview by charging that the labor movement is using Pope Benedict's Papal Encyclical for political purposes, part of our effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

On Saturday, July 11, we made history in Arkansas. We -- civil rights and community leaders, local elected officials, and union activists and leaders, 1,500 of us-- held the largest ever demonstration in Arkansas to demand that Sen. Blanche Lincoln vote for and support the Employee Free Choice Act.

Judge and Rev. Wendell Griffin, Rev. Martha Blackmon of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop Kenneth Hicks, Rev. Gene McElroy of Greater Archview Baptist Church, State Sen. Joyce Elliott, and Arkansas Working America youth leader Willie Holmes will be featured speakers at an historic, huge march and rally Saturday,...

Arlene Holt Baker, the first African-American executive officer of the AFL-CIO and widely known civil rights leader, will join other national labor, civil rights, and faith leaders in an historic march and rally this Saturday, July 11 in Little Rock, Ark.

National Electrical Workers President Ed Hill, Communications Workers of...

May you live in interesting times goes the old blessing. Well for all of us the times could hardly be more interesting. As Charles Dickens wrote in a Tale of Two Cities -- "It was the best of times and the worst of times."

The nation's economy is almost in...