Seizing the "Obama Moment:" Which Side Are We On?
We must realize that while elections are important, constant pressure against both parties has always been the only force that makes real progress.
We must realize that while elections are important, constant pressure against both parties has always been the only force that makes real progress.
Richard Trumka | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
The opponents of working people are trying to divide us by using Obama's race as an issue. Union members must lead the fight against such divisions and, instead, look at the bottom line.
ZP Heller | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
If Wal-Mart broke the law by threatening and scaring employees about which candidates to vote for this November, compel the FEC to hold the company accountable.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
The anti-inflationary policy makers are preaching a simple ideology. To be more kind, they want to make the mistake of being too tight, not too loose.
ZP Heller | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
As to Wal-Mart scaring workers into believing that if Democrats win in November, they will lose, I ask this: if you're a Wal-Mart employee who's making a meager hourly wage that doesn't even cover the cost of food for your family or doctors' visits for your children, haven't you lost already?
Ron Galloway | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Wal-Mart held meetings explaining why an Obama victory might lead to unions organizing more easily. But are they aware that Buffy Wicks, the designer of Obama's grassroots campaign, used to work for Wake Up Wal-Mart?
Elana Levin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Wal-Mart and Cintas are fighting to stop legislation which would help protect workers who want to unionize.
Dolores Huerta | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have fought for justice for California's workers. But now, these same sisters are refusing to show their own workers the same justice they once fought for.
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
I have been writing about the Campaign to Improve Assisted Living -- please visit their website. I'd like to talk about the larger picture. The ot...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
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James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
For the past 15 years, anyone who opposed a so-called "free trade agreement" was labeled a protectionist. And that was the end of the story. The TRADE Act allows us to present an alternative.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living
Last Wednesday more than 160 students in the South Bronx refused to take another standardized test. They are sick of being dragged out of their classrooms to be treated as lab rats in the No Child Left Behind rotten matrix.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
A majority of women say they're worried about such fundamental economic issues as paying for health care, not having retirement security, and pay not keeping up with the cost of living.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business
This week I wrote about the Kaiser Permanente / Inter-Con Security Security Guard strike. The post Security Guards Striking for the Right to Have Our...
Peter Scheer | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business
Vallejo is the first California municipality to declare bankruptcy in the current economic downturn; others are likely to follow, unfortunately.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business
Companies classifying workers as "temporary" or "contractors" is one of the bigger scams that is going on these days.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
In Oregon, Kaiser Permanente security guards are employed by Kaiser, not by a contractor. They are unionized and here is a short chart of just some of the difference this makes.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
There is a strike starting today at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California. Security guards are paid little and get few benefits -- not even sick leave.
John Sweeney | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
If McCain is going to continue trying to gain political points by talking about working family issues, it's time for him to put his votes and policies where his rhetoric is.
Andy Stern | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
We are at a moment of enormous opportunity for working people. Americans have broad recognition of economic injustice, and we in SEIU have the hope of Barack Obama.
Mary Beth Maxwell | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
With the observance of Equal Pay Day on April 22, we mark how far into each year a woman must work to earn as much as a man did in the previous year.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Despite his reputation as a liberal and a friend of working men and women, Reich knows how to walk both sides of the street.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
After days of near universal agreement that Obama's "bitter" comment was going to absolutely crush him, it turns out that most people in small towns don't care, and if anything, they kind of agree.
Raquel Mack | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living
Last weekend, I joined with 1500 of my colleagues to sign the first ever union contract for private security officers in Washington, D.C. It was a big win.
Brendan Smith | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Little has been done by legislators to take care of those like coal miners and power plant workers, who may lose their jobs as a direct effect of efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.
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David Sirota | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics