A sour economy, political gridlock and year upon year of sagging budget revenues are threatening to combine into a perfect initiative storm that could hit California next November.
Mike Elk | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
To label all these Glenn Beck followers as unreachable, bigoted racists is an extraordinarily dangerous and misleading move for the progressive movement, which aims to include all people.
María Elena Durazo | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles
The anti-worker Associated Builders & Contractors has teamed up with its right-wing friends to fight President Obama's health care reform efforts.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
Want to join in the fun? Call Goldman's executive offices at (212) 902-1000, and tell them that nobody makes big profits at public expense while 10.2 percent of Americans are unemployed.
Bernard Pollack | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
Bella Rose, Red Calypso, Sunny Sher, Wild Thing, Ria, and Inca are all grown here in Kenya--roses with enticing names that give little indication about how they are grown or how the workers are treated.
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
It didn't take long for the anti-worker far right to try to spin the results of the 2009 elections as a mandate for their pro-corporate agenda.
Paras Bhayani | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Getting unions to prioritize compensation and not the strictures that constrain schools would require a tectonic shift in their priorities, but precedent for such reformed advocacy does exist.
Emily F. Shaw | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
The Fighting Illini don't have much fight on the gridiron this year. But the University administration has more than enough fight to allow a strike of its TAs to begin.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Local
As the strike by transit workers in Philadelphia enters its fifth day, it is clear why unions have such a tough time in the United States, where fewer than one in eight workers is covered by a union contract.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Jerry Waxman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
All of the union leaders declared that their members felt betrayed by Kosmas and that she had sold out to her big insurance and real estate friends.
Art Levine | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Neither the House nor Senate versions of the health care bill could offer the extensive, affordable coverage that reformers are hoping for or that Democrats have been promoting.
Edward Wytkind | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Unionization in the airline industry has slowed. Why? Union-busting campaigns are alive and well because current election policy encourages employer-run voter suppression campaigns.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
"From one day to the next, they left us with no job," said an out-of-work electrician, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City this month.
Wall Street Journal | By VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
In a windowless factory in this African village, Tiffany is teaching more than 80 workers to transform raw diamonds into gems for Tiffany engagement r...
Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
We're gathering outside the American Bankers Association meeting to demand reform that will allow us to rebuild our communities, our lives and the real economy. We've got a lot to rebuild.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Jeff Ballinger | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Now that Michael Posner has been officially installed as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, it's about time we get started down the road to righting a whole slew of global wrongs.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The leaders of the Republican Party and the ideologues of conservatism have no answers for any of the problems that our country and our people are trying to deal with.
Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Raising a big family was tough for my parents. Feeding eleven people on an auto-workers income meant everything my parents did required effort and creativity.
Richard Trumka | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Unions are popularly known as "the folks who brought you the weekend." In contrast, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the distinction of trying to take away a long and ugly list of benefits.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
A close look at the unemployment figures shows that while white males are taking it on the chin in this recession, women and people of color are down ...
Madeline Janis | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
More than 2.6 million people fell into poverty between 2007 and 2008 is only the "tip of the recession iceberg." In the city of L.A., more than a quarter of children live below the federal poverty line.
Mike Elk | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
We should be thankful that Crystal Lee Sutton's struggle to help the working poor has been immortalized in a film as great as Norma Rae for generations to enjoy and be inspired by.
Robert Hertzberg | Posted 12.14.2009 | Los Angeles