The "skills gap" myth: What's really driving down wages?
There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.
Is nation's gain Wisconsin's loss?
It was Scott Walker himself whose continued bragging about how he had taken away the rights of workers in his home state that actually did him in.
What kind of "healthy" economy is healthy for working people?
Many proposals to prop up or restore the health of our current economic system are at odds with improving the standard of living for workers in the U.S.
Mayors hear biased view of California court decision vs. teacher tenure
There is an answer to public education's poor performance: money; we will have to pay for it, just as we pay for a massive military budget.
New grassroots movements show: Never count out working people
Their request is a simple one: A $15 an hour minimum wage and the right to organize a union.
Harris v. Quinn raises stakes for 2016 presidential election
The Supreme Court's latest assault on the Labor Movement - Harris vs. Quinn - shows how essential it is for Democrats to win the White House in 2016.
The stakes for workers' rights in 2014
We are now in the midst of a full-fledged class war against America's working people. Those directly firing the shots at the U.S. working class are an array of state lawmakers bought and paid for by powerful right wing groups.
After one year of Walker, Wisconsin seems poised for change
Was it the Christmas spirit or the street heat that was getting to Walker? The governor will soon find out that 2012 is going to be a whole lot hotter.
NLRB has airtight case against Boeing
Republicans are clearly using the National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing to launch a bigger, right-wing assault on individual worker rights and collective bargaining.
Defeat Ohio's SB5
Today 36% of public workers are union members which corresponds very closely to 37% of the total U.S. workforce unionized from the 1960s to 1980s.
