“A long strike is usually a losing strike,” observes the noted labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein. Yet the longest strike in U.S. history—the United Auto Workers’ seven-year battle with the Kohler Corporation from 1954 to 1961—turned into a remarkable victory for the union.

It is in these once-liberal states where the Republicans have advanced astonishingly anti-working class measures and pro-corporate subsidies—to the delight of their donors—and enacted major cuts in education and environmental protections.

While Obama administration spokespeople crowed about the “green shoots” of recovery and orthodox economists declared an end to the recession, this discussion…

Like a photograph slowly developing, recognizable features of the Democratic health care reform plan are finally taking shape. Insurers stand to receive…

When it comes to cutting parasitic bankers out of the student loan business so that more students can be helped and left…

Plant closings across the U.S. in recent decades have dramatically re-shaped America’s economic and physical landscape. A new wave of shutdowns has…

The reflexively anti-union, low-wage philosophy of rightist Republicans was spelled out clearly in a December 10 Action Alert sent to GOP senators…

America’s health care system further unraveled relentlessly in 2008, with the Wall Street meltdown and economic uncertainty adding to citizens’ anxiety…

More and more, it is becoming clear that the essence of corporate globalization is to use capital’s mobility to evade the…

A proposed “free trade” deal with Colombia, where 2,100 unionists have been assassinated since 1991, sheds light on many unsavory facets of…