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OSHA's head comes from a union background, as does his right-hand man. The Labor Department's Hilda Solis was hailed as the “next Frances Perkins.” How can so many good appointees apparently display so little power over worker health and safety?

As workers were preparing to go home late in the afternoon of March 25, 1911, fire struck the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. A hundred years later, an eerily similar fire killed garment workers in Bangladesh.

Wisconsin Republicans copped to the fact this week that their real goal was smashing unions, not closing the state’s budget gap. For the rest of the labor movement, it’s a sign of things to come. What's the road map to win round two?

Like other public employees, teachers find their collective bargaining rights under fire in the Republican-governed states. But the attack on teacher job security, and the drive to replace public schools with charters, are universal—and bipartisan.

The revolt in Wisconsin is the most impressive response of American workers to the employer offensive since it began 31 years ago—remarkable for its numbers, for its sustained nature, for the labor-community-student coalition that spontaneously arose.