politics

  • In an Old City, Building a New Common Sense
    Jeff Crosby, Carly McClain
    May 9 2011 - 3:19pm

    Ten percent unemployment. Poverty wages for most of those still working. An epidemic of home foreclosures. This is Lynn, Massachusetts. In response, our Labor Council formed a coalition of union and community groups whose vision is to be the dominant force in regional economic development.

  • Unions, Allies Block Entrance to Billionaires’ Meeting

    Hundreds protested Sunday outside a Southern California resort where corporate executives and conservative political leaders gathered to strategize. Twenty-five were arrested when they sat in the street, blocking the resort entrance.

  • Video: Who Gives More, Business or Labor?

    With the midterm elections a week out, the headlines are all about money in politics. But the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal can't agree on who deserves more scrutiny—business or labor.

  • One Nation: Unions Can Still Turn Out

    Saturday’s One Nation rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C. proved one important point: unions can still turn out. The big question is whether it will be the launching pad for a more challenging relationship with labor's “friends in Washington.”

  • California Nurses a Royal Pain for Billionaire Candidate

    When billionaire Meg Whitman, who has never held any political office and seldom even bothers to vote, decided to use her personal fortune to run for California’s highest office, the California Nurses Association challenged her with political satire.

  • Labor Anti-War Group Refocuses on Afghanistan
    Jane Slaughter
    Oct 29 2009 - 1:04am

    U.S. Labor Against the War is preparing for its third national assembly in December as the original motivation for its founding—the Iraq war—is winding down to a more limited but permanent presence. No worries that the nearly seven-year-old USLAW coalition has outlived its usefulness, though: delegates to the Chicago meeting will debate the Afghanistan war.

  • Outpouring of Protests, then Police "Payback" at G-20 Meeting
    Kipp Dawson, Al Hart, and Paul LeBlanc
    Sep 30 2009 - 4:28pm

    A summit meeting of the Group of 20 in Pittsburgh last week was faced with an outpouring of challenges from social movement activists, community groups, and unions.

  • Mexican Government Seizes Power Plants, Liquidates Dissident Union
    Dan La Botz
    Oct 13 2009 - 5:24pm

    Over the weekend Federal Police seized the plants of the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico, which provides electricity to Mexico City and several states in central Mexico.

  • AFL-CIO Convention: Reform? We'll take it!

    Asked whether the AFL-CIO would stick to earlier statements that the federation will not support a health care reform bill without a government-insurance “public option,” incoming federation President Rich Trumka ducked this morning.

  • Unions Leading Efforts To Return Ousted President in Honduras
    Judy Ancel
    Sep 2 2009 - 10:42pm

    In the early hours of the morning on June 28, the Honduran military shot off the locks on the back entrance to President Manuel Zelaya’s home in Tegucigalpa, dragged him out of bed, and whisked him out of the country in his pajamas.