When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas-funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation-one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era painting of Rosie the Riveter. The painting features a confident, insouciant Rosie on her […]
Working in America
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Relief for Chicken Farmers
The USDA updates rules protecting small-livestock farmers from big business.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Return of Sanity
Yesterday’s election results amount to a broad rejection of Republican overreach.
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Judgment Day in Ohio
Even if voters overturn the state’s anti-union law today, as polls suggest, it’ll be a defensive win—not a step forward.Â
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One Big Question
What is America’s learning curve on the 2008 economic collapse?
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A Model of Health
Members of New York’s Local 6 have some of the best—and most cost-effective—care in the country.
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Union Busters Going Down
Polls for a referendum on an anti-union law in Ohio indicate repeal.
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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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Strike While It’s Hot
Will #OccupyOakland succeed in shutting down the city?
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Half-Right Brooks
The disintegration of working-class families is no accident.
