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THE STRIKE at Verizon Communications–the most active and militant big labor showdown in the U.S. in many years–ended suddenly after two weeks…
Lee Sustar
Lee Sustar is a writer and activist in Chicago.
THE NUMBERS ARE numbing: a $20 billion reduction in state spending on public education in California over the past three years, and…
A move by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to oppose anti-union legislation sets the stage for a confrontation with incoming Mayor Rahm Emanuel…
ANYONE WHO studies the Black liberation movement and seeks to renew its struggles will be saddened by the untimely passing of Manning…
AFTER THREE weeks of demonstrations and an occupation of the Capitol building, the labor battle in Wisconsin was coming to a head…
YOUR PRESIDENT wants you to save teachers’ jobs–and gave you billions of dollars to do it. So why are you putting the…
There’s plenty of money for more economic stimulus–if Barack Obama would fight for it. A YEAR late and a trillion dollars short,…
(October 15, 2009) — PUERTO RICAN unions are poised to shut down much of the island’s economy October 15 in a general…
(August 28, 2009) — AN UNFAIR labor practices strike at Chicago-based SK Hand Tools has highlighted the widespread attack on health care…
AN ELECTION intended to showcase Afghanistan’s "emerging democracy" has instead exposed astonishing corruption, fraud and violence on the part of the U.S.-backed…