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Governors cry, “There’s just no money.” But some people have plenty, while taxes on corporations and the rich have fallen for decades. Fair taxes could stop the financial hemorrhaging and make up all the deficits.

Were the leaders of the Wisconsin state employees and teachers unions wise to announce, as soon as Governor Scott Walker introduced his “budget repair,” that they were happy to take concessions on benefits, as long as they could keep the right to bargain?

Wisconsin showed its lively protest colors with 7,000 protesters joining a jazz funeral march. They challenged the governor's anti-union measures and service cuts, and also concessions offered by public sector union leaders.

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).

Today’s hospitals are big business, run like factories and clustered in growing corporate systems. Health care is a growing, consolidated industry with billions flowing into its coffers and desperately in need of skilled labor. It’s the kind of organizing target U.S. unions have not seen for...

A bill in Michigan would give astounding unchecked power to emergency managers appointed by the governor to oversee towns or school districts. Appointees could fire elected officials, tear up union contracts, outsource, slash services, and sell off public assets. Protesters will fill the state...