How to Close the Gender Wage Gap in Just Seven Easy* Steps How to Close the Gender Wage Gap in Just Seven Easy* Steps
Want to end pay discrimination? All it takes is raising the minimum wage, increasing unionization and passing family leave policies!
Apr 17, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Scott Walker’s Using John Mellencamp’s Music; Mellencamp is Not Amused Scott Walker’s Using John Mellencamp’s Music; Mellencamp is Not Amused
Wisconsin's anti-labor governor uses rocker's song "Small Town" at his first recall rally. Mellencamp responds with a pro-labor message.
Apr 12, 2012 / John Nichols
Red States See Massive Public Sector Job Losses Red States See Massive Public Sector Job Losses
Twelve red states account for 70 percent of all state and local public sector jobs lost since 2010.
Mar 27, 2012 / Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert
Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO
The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.
Mar 21, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Labor and Occupy: A Match Made in… Labor and Occupy: A Match Made in…
Despite occasional friction, unions and Occupy have found a way to live happily together.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
Republic Windows Workers Consider Employee-Owned Co-Op Republic Windows Workers Consider Employee-Owned Co-Op
In 2008, a worker occupation at the Chicago factory sent up a flare of resistance. Now those same workers are considering alternatives to working for a boss.
Mar 1, 2012 / Laura Flanders
Virginia Students Hunger-Strike for Living Wage Virginia Students Hunger-Strike for Living Wage
As a last resort to end a fourteen-year campaign for a living wage, fifteen students are now on day six of a hunger strike.
Feb 23, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Uprising, One Year Later Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Uprising, One Year Later
When Governor Walker announced his proposal to strip public employees of most collective bargaining rights on February 11, 2011—little over a month after taking office—…
Feb 14, 2012 / Photo Essay / The Nation
John Nichols: Governor Walker and the Koch Brothers Are Behind Arizona’s Fight Against Unions John Nichols: Governor Walker and the Koch Brothers Are Behind Arizona’s Fight Against Unions
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has not limited the assault on collective bargaining to his own state.
Feb 3, 2012 / Press Room
How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona’s Unions How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona’s Unions
Wisconsin’s union-busting governor traveled to Arizona and urged conservatives to join him in fighting public-employee unions. Now, the group he addressed is spearheading an ...
Feb 2, 2012 / John Nichols