Foxconn, China’s biggest private employer, allows its workers to go union—which is more than any American employer has done in decades.
Working in America
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Where the Wingers Won
The 2012 election’s progressive victories didn’t stem the tide of conservatives flooding state legislatures.
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In the Schools of Philadelphia
A yawning budget gap has accelerated school closures, but a new community-labor alliance is fighting back.
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The D.C. Circuit Court’s Chaos Theory
In Washington, dysfunction prevails.
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Workers, Not Babysitters
There’s still a long way to go to ensure domestic workers have the same protections as other workers, but progress is coming.
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Labor, and Middle Class, Still Shrinking
The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s annual report makes for grim reading.
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Invisible Workers, Global Struggles
From the home to the streets, domestic workers organize to counter abusive job conditions.
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Solis Steps Down
The secretary probably has a future in California politics—but who has a future as her successor at Labor?
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Just What Workers Need: More Labor Civil War
A not-so-great battle in the world of organizing threatens to limit the effectiveness of the nation’s two biggest health-care unions.
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Watching Wal-Mart’s Warehouses
Good news and bad news came out of Wal-Mart last week. And it’s the same news.