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  • Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service
    David Yao
    November 3, 2009

    The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.

  • Harvard Workers Fight Layoffs
    Joshua Koritz
    November 1, 2009
    Economic Meltdown
    ** Print only

    In spite of a massive endowment—still valued at $26 billion despite the stock-market slide—Harvard has laid off between 200 and 500 clerical, technical, and janitorial workers, many of them union members. The school is hinting at another round of layoffs this winter.

  • Trabajo en el Hotel
    Francisco Herrera
    November 1, 2009
    Song of the Month

    Honor Migrante is a musical narrative that tells the story of a community of proud immigrants whose voices are rarely heard publicly. Francisco Herrera is a soulful border musician/storyteller using the hybrid styles of the Chicano border community, a flexible cultural space that has maintained the spirit of mestizo identity in the midst of global cultural homogenization–further influenced by work in Central and South America.

  • 10-Week Chicago Teamsters Strike Wins Back Health Care
    Enku Ide
    November 5, 2009
    The Workplace

    When SK Hand Tools in Chicago unilaterally dropped health insurance and tried to strip pensions and cut pay, workers headed to picket lines. Now they're returning to work after 10 weeks on strike, having saved their health care and pensions.