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Before the trick or treating began last Saturday in Chicago, 65 labor activists met at the United Electrical Workers hall to tackle the “zombie economics” of the free market, which has put the Illinois budget on its back.

Following strikes in 2007, UK postal workers are walking out again over pay cuts, speed up, and government privatization schemes—77,000 mail carriers will walk out on October 31.

When members of the “lean community” (their actual phrase) took issue with my recent claim that big hotel chains' embrace of lean management techniques are a contributing trend to high injury rates for housekeepers, it's hard not to say the debate is on, brothers and sisters.

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:...

Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin argue convincingly that the union framework is broken and a complete overhaul is needed so that the labor movement can be the engine of a movement for broader social change.