Labor

2009

• Working Women: Strength in Numbers

  Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women

  First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.

• Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea

  Steve Early & Rand Wilson : Health Insurance

  Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.

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  The New Domestic Order

  Lizzy Ratner

  Passage of a "Bill of Rights" in New York would be a promising win for a growing movement.

• Working Without Laws

  Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman & Nik Theodore

  Employment and labor law violations are still persistent in America. There is hope for change with the new administration.

• Has Labor Been Left Hanging?

  Sarah Jaffe

  Security guards in Philadelphia face an uphill battle to unionize with the Employee Free Choice Act stalled in Congress.

• Trumka Thinks Big

  David Moberg : AFL/CIO

  As he mounts his run for AFL-CIO president at a moment of opportunity and peril for American workers, Richard Trumka calls for no less than a new social compact.

• Starbucks: A History of Union Busting

  Brave New Films : Unions

  What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common? Both have long track records of harassing their workers when it comes to joining unions.

• Why Can't We Fire the Boss?

  GRIT TV

  Namoi Klein and Avi Lewis talk about how direct action worker campaigns have fared here in the United States and around the world.

• The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss

  Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein : U.S. Economy

  Workers in the United States and Europe are beginning to ask the same question as their Latin American counterparts: why do we have to get fired?

• The Case for Kenosha

  John Nichols : United Auto Workers (UAW)

  Bailouts may protect the automakers. But what about the autoworkers?

• Will Workers Be Left Behind in a Green Transition?

  Joe Uehlein : Environment

  As Congress prepares legislation to slow global warming, what kind of jobs will it create?

• One Hat for Labor?

  David Moberg : AFL/CIO

  Rethinking their split four years ago, unions are exploring reunification.

• Not Our Department

  Christopher Hayes : Barack Obama Administration

  For the Labor Department damaged by eight years of Bush neglect, help is finally on the way.

• Higher Education Takes a Hit

  Gabriel Arana : Higher Education

  As university budgets dwindle, adjunct professors around the country are looking to unionize in a desperate effort to protect their jobs.

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  Global Labor's G-20 Agenda

  Max Fraser

  As financial leaders assemble in London, the international labor movement offers a vision for a new global economy.

• Which Side Are You On?

  Christopher Hayes : U.S. Economy

  Every Democratic elected official must answer an old but newly relevant question: are you for or against labor unions?

• Don't Bail on EFCA

  The Editors : U.S. Economy

  In a climate of crisis, it would be foolish for Democrats to retreat from the one measure that could rebalance our disastrous economic formula: pass the EFCA.