Wisconsin’s Attack on Public Employees Could Lead to a Nationwide Campaign Wisconsin’s Attack on Public Employees Could Lead to a Nationwide Campaign
A proposed bill to end collective bargaining and slash wages and benefits for nearly all public employees could foreshadow a larger conservative strategy to take down unions.
Feb 15, 2011 / Democracy Now!
Wisconsin Students Protest Governor’s Attack on Unions Wisconsin Students Protest Governor’s Attack on Unions
A proposed bill to end collective bargaining for nearly all public employees has mobilized the state's students to protect teacher's unions.
Feb 15, 2011 / StudentNation / Sara Jerving
A ‘Dictator’ Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions A ‘Dictator’ Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions
The most radical assault yet by the current crop of Republican governor on the rights of workers has inspired outrage in a historically progressive and pro-labor state, with the go...
Feb 13, 2011 / John Nichols
Battle of Cairo, Day 16: Workers Join the Revolution Battle of Cairo, Day 16: Workers Join the Revolution
What could become a general strike by Egypt's workers has begun. Parliament building, broadcasting center targeted.
Feb 9, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Conservative Class War, Continued The Conservative Class War, Continued
The assault on public employee unions is the next phase of a the forty-year campaign by the rich against the rest of us.
Feb 3, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman
Setting the Story Straight on Snow ‘Slowdown’ Setting the Story Straight on Snow ‘Slowdown’
It's worth noting, while New Yorkers dig ourselves out from another snowstorm, that the story that went rocketing around the media after the first major snowstorm of the year, of a...
Jan 27, 2011 / Laura Flanders
Why Tax When You Can Freeze? Why Tax When You Can Freeze?
"The hard truth" is that controlling the deficit's going to "require some broad sacrifice" that public workers are going to have to share in, said the Pres.
Nov 30, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Profits, Pensions and the Return of GM Profits, Pensions and the Return of GM
Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a little over a year after bankruptcy...
Nov 18, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Unionbusting, Iraqi-Style Unionbusting, Iraqi-Style
With US approval and privatization the goal, the government is targeting organized labor.
Oct 6, 2010 / Feature / David Bacon
Europe Marches; Brussels Stands Still Europe Marches; Brussels Stands Still
Europe's workers march against austerity, but no government will challenge the new neoliberal orthodoxy.
Sep 30, 2010 / Maria Margaronis