Marriage equality promises "a more perfect union"
Legal experts and human rights activists describe this week's two cases before the Supreme Court on same-sex marriageas as monumental.
End of the post office as a public institution?
This year the post office will close half its processing centers. By the end of this summer Saturday delivery is scheduled to end. Over the next year over 3,000 local post offices will close.
Working class loses a leader: George Edwards, activist every day
The working class and people lost a great leader, activist, and fighter for justice and equality this past week.
A book for Labor Day: "Playing Bigger Than You Are - A Life In Organizing"
This Labor Day workers will be marching and highlighting union and election struggles around the country. After the marches, it might be a good time to kick back and read a good book by a leader in those fights.
Grover Norquist’s false twist to anti-union rhetoric
Norquist begins by using misleading language...
Today in labor history: Steel Workers founded in Pittsburgh
Within a year of its inception, over 125,000 people had joined the union.
How to stop corporate criminality
If you want any more evidence that U.S. corporate executives and financial finaglers are nothing more than crooks in costly suits, all you needed to was right on the front page of The New York Times.
Workers of the world are uniting
Last week IndustriALL, a new global union, was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark. It represents 50 million workers in 350 unions from all over the world.
Robert Reich is wrong about socialism
The first two paragraphs of Reich's column, "The Answer Isn't Socialism; It's Capitalism that Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productive Revolution" are simply false.
