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How 'fighting terrorism' became a bludgeon in Bush's assault on labor.

Union members are making links between customers' concerns and their
own.

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.

Pennsylvania's mine rescue was inspiring, but the real story was
corporate greed.

How the crisis is destroying jobs--and what can be done about it.

As the general strike against President Hugo Chávez entered its
third week in early December, a major TV channel broadcast statements by
baseball hero Andres Galarraga and other celebrit

Dolores Huerta flouts the smug conventional wisdom that the 1960s are
behind us. She won't settle down and become an anachronism.

While we wait for labor law reform, here are a few things unions can do.

Selling women short.

Support was provided by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the
Dick Goldensohn Fund, and is gratefully acknowledged. Liza Featherstone
is writing a book about Wal-Mart and women workers, to be published by
Basic Books in late 2004.