Big Labor’s Little Problem Big Labor’s Little Problem
At a "Lean Workplace School" for union members, sponsored by the monthly magazine Labor Notes in 1996, the discussion centered around how to fight employers' speed-up and worke...
Nov 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter
Labor Plays Its Hand Labor Plays Its Hand
Unions have improved their political game but are unhappy with the results.
Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / David Moberg
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
he Powers That Be constantly try to keep the progressive majority divided: workers against environmentalists, enviros against farmers, farmers against consumers, consumers agai...
Sep 12, 2002 / Jim Hightower
The Soul of the Worker The Soul of the Worker
I was born into the House of Labor. My father was a Teamster who drove a truck for thirty-five years. He died with his first retirement check in his pocket, uncashed.
Aug 28, 2002 / Dennis Kucinich
Reforming the Teamsters Reforming the Teamsters
Even shrunken from its high point, the Teamsters union is a major force in the American labor movement--for both good and ill. On the plus side, building on its celebrated UPS ...
Aug 15, 2002 / David Moberg
Union Blues at Wal-Mart Union Blues at Wal-Mart
Attempts to organize are squelched by a flying column of unionbusters.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / John Dicker
It’s Payback Time It’s Payback Time
Labor-backed politicians are being asked to return the favor in union fights.
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / David Moberg
Unions on the Net Unions on the Net
Unions are gradually making fuller use of the Internet's capacities to improve communication with their own staffs or members. But increasingly they are also using the web to recr...
Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
A Proposal to American Labor A Proposal to American Labor
Let's create "open-source unions," and welcome millions into the movement.
Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
Letter From Italy Letter From Italy
From Padua's Piazza Insurrezione, where I was standing at 11 in the morning on April 16, the general strike--Italy's first in twenty years--looked and sounded like a great success...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Joanne Barkan