“We must expand from one-day marches and demonstrations to weeks of creative direct action and activities,” wrote Stephen Lerner in New Labor Forum, a quarterly left-labor journal, several weeks before Occupy Wall Street took shape. One way to do that, he continued, “is to build these kinds of longer and more involved protests around students […]
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Bottom Up
Think the minimum wage covers everything but restaurant workers? Think again.
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God Help Us
Will Rick Perry’s blend of Christian-right, small-government, and pro-corporate fervor land him in the White House?
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Bending the Rules
Congress keeps finding new ways to attack farm-bill reform.
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Relief for Chicken Farmers
The USDA updates rules protecting small-livestock farmers from big business.
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McEntee, Head of AFSCME, to Retire
Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municiple Employees (AFSCME), the 1.4 million-member union that is the largest in the AFL-CIO, has told certain members of AFSCME’s executive board that he will not run for re-election. McEntee has been heading AFSCME since 1981 and is the senior member of the AFL-CIO’s […]
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Women and Wal-Mart
Does the company treat female employees fairly? The question goes back to court.
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Once Made in the USA
The U.S. may soon reach the point where it can’t rebuild its manufacturing base.
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Florida, Inc.
If a state were a business, CEO Rick Scott would be shown the door.
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Captive Labor
The old prison labor was chain gangs and license plates. The new prison labor is contracts with corporate America to employ inmates at less-than-minimum wage.
