Gov. Walker is now facing a recall election, and the polls indicate he will win it. That complicates naming him as the vice-presidential nominee.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.03.2011
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress De...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 09.29.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama was swept into office amid calls for change in the country on issues ranging from the economy to education. Almos...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.02.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Wisconsin's La Crosse County recently discussed the possibility of finding a spoiler candidate to run against Democratic ...
Michael Berkowitz | Posted 07.05.2011
The people of Wisconsin owe many thanks to the crowds of a hundred thousand that thronged the state capital at Madison... and to the countless volunteers who took up the challenge.
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — Striving to ease a budget crisis, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a watershed deal Thursday with city unions that will requir...
María Elena Durazo | Posted 05.25.2011
I had the privilege to go to Madison, WI with 161 union members from LA. Where but in America could an immigrant worker from LA join arms with a Wisconsin dairy farmer in a common cause?
AP | By CALVIN WOODWARD and SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Labor is roaring again, like in the old days. But it's a wounded sound now. In the bitter aftermath of a showdown with Wisconsin's go...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) may have won the most recent battle in Madison by securing passage of an anti-union bill, labor ac...
Jodi Beggs | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's begin with an almost perversely-timed history lesson: 100 years ago (March 25, 1911, to be exact), 146 factory workers lost their lives in the ...
AP | TODD RICHMOND | Posted 05.25.2011
MADISON, Wis. — Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
MADISON, Wis. -- Police carried dozens of protesters from a hallway leading to the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday as Democratic representatives pounde...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Dealt a major setback Wednesday night in a high-stakes battle over union rights in Wisconsin, labor leaders nevertheless insisted that t...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
There is nothing that happened that changes the equation, or Wisconsin Democrats' ability to get what they have been fighting for. Stay the course.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The Awl's Abe Sauer has been in Madison covering the ongoing demonstrations against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill. And after ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) weighed in on the labor protests rocking the Midwest on Sunday, saying that the current system of co...
Amy B. Dean | Posted 05.25.2011
Many people may not see collectively bargaining as relevant to problems in their own work lives. You might think, I don't need a union because I'm a professional. You are nevertheless affected by a growing imbalance of power in today's workplaces.
Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 05.25.2011
My mother worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory. My father worked at a battery recycling plant and was a shop steward there for the Teamsters Union. I was "raised union."
Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011
Sierra Club members were proud to join workers' rights rallies in Chicago and Springfield this weekend.
Andy McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thinks Union girls are bad news... and he's looking to get into some trouble. The sexy variety. Bow-chicka-bow-wow. ...
Andy Kroll | Posted 05.25.2011
In calendar terms, the demonstrations in Wisconsin, you could say, picked up right where the Egyptians left off. I've slept on the cold, stone floor of the Wisconsin state Capitol (twice), and believe me, the spirit of Cairo is here.
AP/The Huffington Post | PATRICK CONDON and TODD RICHMOND | Posted 05.25.2011
MADISON, Wis. — Chanting pro-union slogans and carrying signs declaring "We are all Wisconsin," protesters turned out in cities nationwide to su...
AP | JASON SMATHERS | Posted 05.25.2011
MADISON, Wis. — Harriet Rowan was among the first to join what has become an almost two-week-long rally at the Wisconsin Capitol, and she said w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: NBC just sent out its line-up for Sunday's "Meet the Press" and it does now include AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka, who will be part of a roundta...
Craig Crawford | Posted 05.25.2011
To say the least, it is rather difficult to prove that ending collective bargaining, as is now proposed in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere, offers any guarantee that states can close their budget gaps.
Howard Foster | Posted 05.02.2012