Jobs with Justice needed more than ever
Jobs with Justice has broadened the base of support for working people, and they have inventively multiplied the arsenal of labor's strategies.
Right wing running scared in Wisconsin
With the first big electoral test of whether organized labor can successfully push back at the polls against the radical right, it is apparent here that labor's opponents are running scared.
For New Orleans, Brad Pitt houses were not enough
Some of the gleaming new structures sit opposite desolate, abandoned lots while others are sandwiched in between crumbling houses to which no one has returned.
Is snail mail on its last legs?
The United States Postal Service has announced that it will examine 3,700 post offices for the possibility of closure.
Finally, a new hospital rises in post-Katrina St. Bernard
The slowness to rebuild the health care system served the interests of those seeking to permanently remove poor people and many working families from the area, union leaders and others here say. Unions have taken up the fight for restoring health care facilities and building new ones where they are needed.
On the Gulf, bipartisan backing for federal money, and unions
The enormous tasks of rebuilding after Katrina also has at least one local Republican siding with the unions.
Wisconsin recall victories clarify voter mood, next steps
Recall fever got an enormous boost July 19 when Democratic incumbent Dave Hansen easily crushed a legally challenged Republican challenger.
Louisiana workers say union jobs break down barriers
The bosses don't want lots of union workers because they tend to break down the racial divide that has slowed progress in this part of the country ever since the end of the Civil War.
Unions, allies launch national campaign for caregivers, clients
The objective is to enhance community-based and home-based long-term care for the current 7.6 million elderly adults who need it and for the estimated one-fifth of the U.S. population that will need it by 2030.
