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  • How to Bargain Concessions (If You Must)
    Richard de Vries
    May 15
    Stewards Corner

    Can concessions save jobs? Almost always they cannot, and certainly not in the big picture. Concessions can’t fix a collapsed market or stop offshoring, nor the 1%’s relentless assault on the working class. But concessions may save jobs in the short term if the union bargains hard in areas not traditional to our thinking and gets specific, concrete guarantees.

  • Steelworkers at Oil Refiner Tesoro Ready for Strike
    Patrick Young
    April 30

    The oil refiner Tesoro took a $40 million loss after an explosion last year that claimed seven lives. Management is trying to recoup the money by forcing workers to pay for its mistakes, leading Steelworkers to prepare for a strike.

  • Get The Frack Outa Here
    WOOL&GRANT (Ina May Wool and Bev Grant)
    May 1
    Song of the Month

    Gas man came calling just the other day. / Said you lease me your land and I promise we will pay / For what you got underground; we’ll bring it to the top. / But first we gotta drill a hole, make those bubbles pop....

  • Celebrating May Day, in New and Old Ways
    Andrew Sernatinger
    May 2

    Given the attack on the Occupy camps last fall, the assault on labor, and the spread of Arizona-style anti-immigrant laws, what would happen this May Day was an open question. Would it see the revival of the Occupy movement, allied with labor and immigrants?

  • Tax-Dodging GE Takes Union Fire
    Jim West
    April 25

    At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this morning outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes. Signs read, "We pay taxes, why don't you?"