Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout? Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?
SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?
Jun 27, 2007 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
An Olympic Disgrace An Olympic Disgrace
The Olympics are always big business, and the next summer's Games in Beijing may well be the most profitable in history. Much of the money is made through licensing; sale of Beijin...
Jun 25, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike Time to Get Tough, Mayor Mike
Ever wonder why you can still get a manicure for $5 in parts of New York City? Or why waiters here are mostly white, while all the busboys are immigrants? All this is explained i...
Jun 21, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Campus Unrest Campus Unrest
On some West Coast college campuses this week, students and workers have been outspoken. Tuesday afternoon the Stanford students occupying their presidents office were arrested, as...
May 24, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Stanford Students Expect “Moral Integrity” from Prez Stanford Students Expect “Moral Integrity” from Prez
This morning, eleven Stanford University students began occupying the lobby of their president's office demanding humane conditions for the workers who make clothes and hats bearin...
May 22, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
More Trouble in Latte-Land More Trouble in Latte-Land
Today Starbucks faced legal and political trouble from its own workers. On the third anniversary of the founding of the IWW Starbucks Union, baristas in Chicago marched into a shop...
May 17, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close) For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close)
Last week your humble correspondent learned, over a dry repast of catered chicken with some of our nation's most influential men, that unlike Canada and many other civilized democr...
May 13, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Will Justice Be Served in NYC? Will Justice Be Served in NYC?
So much City Council legislation -- whether in New York or other cities -- is essentially performance art, even if its intentions are progressive. You know the genre -- banning the...
May 9, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
Men of Aahction? Men of Aahction?
Today I had lunch with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, SEIU president Andy Stern, and the disembodied head of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Let me explain.
May 8, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone
DC Sex Scandal: Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Bunch of Guys DC Sex Scandal: Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Bunch of Guys
I'm amused that none of my Notion colleagues have commented on the Washington, D.C. sex scandal. Time to break this high-minded code of delicacy. Alleged madam Deborah Jane Palfrey...
May 2, 2007 / The Notion / Liza Featherstone