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  • Why the Millionaires Tax Was Worth Fighting For

    The tax compromise made by the California Federation of Teachers resulted in major improvements to the ballot initiative that could be in front of voters in November. But there are compelling reasons why proponents of the millionaires tax should have bucked the governor's deal and continued their struggle to reverse endless austerity.

  • 21,000 Strike Giant California Hospital Chains
    Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus
    Sep 23 2011 - 1:06pm

    Sparking giant strikes in two California hospital chains, 4,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers walked on Wednesday. Joining them on sympathy strikes were 19,000 other hospital workers.

  • Reformers Sweep Election in New York Nurses Union
    Mark Brenner
    Sep 1 2011 - 11:03am

    In an election that could further alter the fast-changing landscape of nurse unions, reformers in the New York State Nurses Association gained a big majority on the organization’s board of directors.

  • Nurses Join International Push for Bank Trade Tax
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 22 2011 - 5:17pm

    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. National Nurses United led the protest.

  • Nurse Unions: Florence Nightingale Doesn't Work Here Anymore
    Mischa Gaus
    May 6 2011 - 2:43pm

    National Nurses United marked National Nurses Week this year with strike threats at six hospitals in five states, winning increased staffing levels in some locations and beating back health care cost hikes in others.

  • After Labor’s Civil Wars, What Does Reconstruction Require?

    Steve Early’s new book The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor tackles the series of messy internal disputes that wracked the labor movement for much of the last decade, many involving the Service Employees (SEIU).

  • From California, and into Wisconsin's Friendly Roar

    The wave of protest cresting in Madison is amazing: students, workers, seniors, everyone is coming together in peaceful but unyielding opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s attack on democracy. Our contingent from the LA County Fed arrived to find the self-organized, old-fashioned Tom Paine America. It ain’t dead yet.

  • 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.

  • What Will Labor Learn From the Election Disaster?
    Mark Brenner
    Nov 19 2010 - 9:54am

    Who would have thought that the party of Big Business could do so well just two years after the banks crashed the economy? This election gives labor activists a warning to pull the plug on strategies that helped get us into this mess.

  • Hospital Unions Make Inroads Through ‘Neutrality’ Deals
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 8 2010 - 10:14am

    Thousands of health care workers in Texas and Florida have a shot at a union as a result of neutrality deals. SEIU and CNA-NNOC say they gave away no pre-conditions to get the deals. But what kind of unions are they building?