Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye
Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."
Marin County pickets and honks for the working class
Residents of Marin County joined a nationwide outpouring of protest against the Republican Party's anti-worker policies.
1,000 rally in support of outspoken teacher, vs. bullying and cuts
Philadelphia residents rally for suspended teacher who critized school district plans to privatize eight public schools.
"States' rights" Republicans killing democracy, state by state
Major assaults on democracy are underway on the local level in dozens of states.
Miami labor sees recall as "democracy for sale"
MIAMI - According to polls, Miami-Dade County residents will likely recall both the mayor and a county commissioner. But not everyone - especially not labor - is excited.
NFL lockout is about stripping workers rights
Despite weeks, if not months, of labor negotiations between NFL owners and players, the nation's most popular sport could see its first shutdown in 24 years.
Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin
March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.
Richard Trumka, 10,000 union members flood Maryland State Capitol
More than 10,000 union members and supporters swarmed the State Capitol in here to protest proposed changes to teacher's pensions and to respond to the recent assault on unions in Wisconsin.
Feb. jobless figures down but concerns rise over govt. cuts
The nation's official unemployment rate declined ever so slightly for the third straight month in February, down 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week.
Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims
Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.
