Retired librarian sees trouble ahead
Rahm Emanuel announced there would be significant cuts in the city's library system. These cuts would reduce staff members' 60 plus hours a week to 40.
Occupy Memphis: Sixteen days and counting
Occupy Memphis features several caucuses devoted to women's rights, diversity, homelessness, LGBT, anti-Capitalism, and Agnosticism/Atheism. The protests have been peaceful and widely supported by the citizens of the Mid-South.
Workers United convention rallies in solidarity with Occupy Chicago
Saying that it is "time to take our country back and we will, "over 200 delegates to the Midwest Regional Joint Board Convention of Workers United declared their solidarity with Occupy Chicago on Oct. 26.
Chicago unemployment activist’s message of hope
When Janet Edburg was laid off from her job at a Chicago photo lab equipment manufacturer three years ago, she experienced first hand the despair felt by millions of unemployed workers.
Eyewitness describes brutality in tobacco fields
"What we saw was never to be imagined: When the work day ends, farm workers - men, women, and children - returned to grim camps."
It's official: Top 1% doubled their share of nation's income
The Congressional Budget Office said in a new report this week what the labor movement and its allies have been saying all along.
GOP votes to keep teachers and first responders unemployed
Twice in less than two weeks now, the GOP has killed attempts to put Americans back to work.
In Virginia, North Carolina, President Obama touts jobs bill
Winding up a two-state tour this week, President Barack Obama stumped throughout North Carolina and Virginia, campaign-style, to rally support for the American Jobs Act.
Occupy Chicago fills the jail with inspiration and solidarity
On Oct. 15, I was one of the 200 occupiers who were arrested standing up for free speech and assembly and against corporate greed, after Occupy Chicago attempted to establish an encampment at the edge of Grant Park.
Shocking report shows tax break created no jobs
The big tax break of 2004 - which the then-sitting Congress and the Bush administration promised would bring jobs and revamp the economy - did little more than stuff $300 billion into the pockets of the rich.
