Detroit hit the Trifecta yesterday—the third in a series of body blows that politicians have landed on the city’s working people. The…
Jane Slaughter
Many people know NAFTA has cost U.S. workers 700,000 jobs. But how many know another effect was to drive Mexican small farmers…
“Want to know what all the fuss is? “We are standing up for justice!” At a busy intersection dotted with fast food…
They inspired the country when they sat down inside their Chicago factory in December 2008, and now they’ll have the chance to…
Since 2006, May Day in the United States has come to mean immigrants’ rights. That was the year millions of people marched…
Part 2 of a two-part series on the TRADOC workers' cooperative in Mexico. Part 1 is here. A tire is not just…
“If the owners don’t want it, let’s run it ourselves.” When a factory closes, the idea of turning it into a worker-owned…
The New Year brings promises to ourselves: to join the gym, quit smoking, get back on the diet wagon. Many employers now…
Union protesters in front of the Michigan Capitol on December 11 knocked down an enormous tent erected by Americans for Prosperity, the…
If Congress and the President reach a “grand bargain” in the lame-duck session, seniors, the poor, and the disabled will pay for…