Prize for Dolores Huerta Prize for Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta flouts the smug conventional wisdom that the 1960s are behind us. She won't settle down and become an anachronism.
Dec 5, 2002 / Tom Hayden
Lighting Labor’s Fire Lighting Labor’s Fire
While we wait for labor law reform, here are a few things unions can do.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan and Barbara Ehrenreich
WWJD? Protest Wal-Mart! WWJD? Protest Wal-Mart!
Support was provided by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Dick Goldensohn Fund, and is gratefully acknowledged. Liza Featherstone is writing a book about Wal-Mart and w...
Nov 22, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Antiwar Labor Pains Antiwar Labor Pains
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions
President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- ...
Nov 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Alien Nation Alien Nation
When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they attracted some unlikely allies.
Nov 14, 2002 / Jennifer C. Berkshire
INS Declares War on Labor INS Declares War on Labor
Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Nov 6, 2002 / Feature / David Bacon
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