Labor

Move Your BIG Money Move Your BIG Money

New York City union leaders are threatening to move their pensions to alternative financial institutions if big banks continue to just say no to Obama's mortgage modification progr...

Jul 15, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Year of Which Women Again? The Year of Which Women Again?

So it's “the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some.

Jul 8, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’

Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’ Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’

Workers tapping rubber at the Firestone plantation in Liberia are struggling for better wages and working conditions—and pushing their employer to stop polluting the land and...

Jul 8, 2010 / Nicholas Jahr

Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?

Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.

Jul 8, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit

While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the def...

Jul 7, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV

Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV

Speaking before the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago, The Nation's William Greider draws parallels between the political realities of today and the challenges labor a...

Jul 6, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV

Speaking before the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago, The Nation's William Greider draws parallels between the political realities of today and the challenges labor act...

Jul 6, 2010 / Video / CAN TV

An Unequal-Opportunity Recession

An Unequal-Opportunity Recession An Unequal-Opportunity Recession

The distribution of damage done by the Great Recession is not equal. African-Americans, men and low-skilled workers have been hardest hit.

Jun 30, 2010 / Feature / Katherine S. Newman and David Pedulla

American Incomes: Soaring or Static American Incomes: Soaring or Static

Addressing wage stagnation should be the country's top priority.

Jun 30, 2010 / Feature / Jeff Madrick

Labor’s Convoluted Future Labor’s Convoluted Future

The Nation's Max Fraser and Michael Whitney of Firedoglake join Laura Flanders to deconstruct the ways in which labor's long-term alliance with the Democratic party is in trou...

Jun 24, 2010 / Nation in the News / The Nation on Grit TV

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