Today, on the eve of the anniversary of King's assassination, national civil rights leaders called for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would give workers the choice of how to form a union.
Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.
The Plum Line | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
The major unions are grabbing on to the ouster of General Motors chief Rick Wagoner to launch a campaign to pressure the Obama administration to engin...
Wall Street Journal | KRIS MAHER | Posted 04.21.2009 | Business
Three big retailers are expected to back an alternative proposal next week on a hotly contested bill that would make it easier to unionize workplaces,...
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
After years of decline, Illinois union ranks in 2008 grew by 97,000 workers. [...] The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that membership in I...
Alexander Russo | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
It seemed at first like the unionization effort at the KIPP school in Brooklyn might happen without too much conflict. By early February, however, reports started coming out about stalled negotiations and alleged intimidation by KIPP administrators.
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Check back here for updates on the Employee Free Choice Act. The Employee Free Choice Act, sometimes called "card check," is legislation aimed at st...
Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Despite all the scare-mongering, union strategists are growing increasingly confident that they'll be able to hold on to the few past supporters of the legislation.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
America's top CEOs have declared their top legislative priority for 2009 -- to scuttle the bipartisan legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
The campaign on EFCA will be fierce. Gaining 60 votes won't be easy. The business community will go all out, claiming that strong unions will ruin America, trample workers' freedoms, drive jobs abroad. But we've tried an economy with weak unions -- and that didn't work out so well. Obama is right to tee this up early even as he struggles to get the economy moving, to get the financial system reorganized, to move on health care and new energy. This is a fight that citizens across the country should join. It will be a critical building block of the new economy that we must construct from the ashes of the old.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
Henry Ford used to say that he wanted his workers to have enough money to buy his cars. For their own self-interest, business, and their Republican allies in Congress, should embrace broad unionization.
Art Levine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
Republican leaders and their conservative big business allies, including the Chamber of Commerce, have gone after workers' rights ...
Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
The Filipino veterans have received their due, but Asian workers have not. It is up Asian activists to continue to educate and politicize our youth.
Lane Hudson | Posted 03.28.2009 | Home
"Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are on the left side of the plane, you will see a spectacular view of New York City and US Airways' new runway, the Hudson River." Cute, right?
Art Levine | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home
With the pro-worker Hilda Solis now at the helm of the Labor Department, our country will have a better chance to fulfill the vision President Obama highlighted Tuesday night.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
In the wake of this economic meltdown, maybe it's time to put to rest the conservative canard that respecting workers' rights to unionize and to bargain collectively is tantamount to a communist coup d'etat.
Art Levine | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
Big businesses and the GOP have taken a short-term, greedy look at their economic self-interest and determined they must fight the Employee Free Choice Act with all the weapons at their disposal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, is set to be confirmed by the Senate a week from Tuesday. In the meantime, some...
SanDiego.com | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Former President Bill Clinton will likely cross a picket line when he delivers a keynote speech at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego on...
Mark Bazer | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
Congressional candidate Geoghegan sat down with me at the Hideout to discuss the economy and other issues in the race.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
If the point is to stop the legal looting of corporate treasuries and leave some money in the till for regular workers, when you get right down to it, the CEO pay caps aren't meaningful.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The labor movement should call for a simple requirement: if you take taxpayer money, you may not oppose any attempt to unionize the workplace. You must remain neutral.
Art Levine | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
An aggressive new ad campaign launched Sunday against the lies about the Employee Free Choice Act have clearly boosted the union cause.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
On Friday, President Obama, a onetime organizer, had more words to say about unions, and they were the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven't heard from a president since FDR's day.
Steve Rosenthal | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
Union representation elections currently have the deck is stacked against workers in winning the right to unite together. Anyone who thinks this is a fair and democratic process has obviously never been involved in it.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics