Gregg Shotwell Right back where we started Anything that once provided an illusion of safety for autoworkers is vanishing--so we either we rise up together, or no one walks away with a living wage.
Arturo Sernas Protesting Hyatt’s hypocrisy About 50 hotel workers and their supporters picketed the Hyatt Regency Long Beach to demand union recognition.
Lee Sustar Using the courts to undercut unions The judge who barred a one-day teachers' strike in Los Angeles is drawing on an old tradition of using the courts to cripple--or crush--labor unions.
Alan Maass and Helen Redmond The retreat from reform Despite bold promises from Barack Obama and the Democrats, the prospects for genuine health care reform in Washington seem to be shrinking by the day.
Scott Johnson Bitter fruits of the occupation In the film Lemon Tree, a Palestinian woman fights to keep her family's orchard and protests the indignities of life under the Israeli occupation.
Interview: David Boyajian Why won’t they call it genocide? There are strategic motives behind Barack Obama's decision to break his promise to call the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey "genocide."
Readers’ View A low-wage insult Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to create 12,000 low-wage jobs in food banks, forest trails and state campgrounds is an outrage.
Readers’ View Preventing teachers from marching I was deeply frustrated to arrive in Raleigh for a teachers' rally and protest--only to be told last minute that we would be holding a "motorcade" instead.
Readers’ View A hunger strike for campus jobs On May 12, five students at Vassar College began a hunger strike in protest of the administration's call to eliminate summer jobs for campus workers.
Editorial Why are they letting torturers off the hook? Everyone expects Dick Cheney to rationalize torture by the CIA and U.S. armed forces. But Barack Obama?
