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
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
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
Out in the countryside is where you'll find America's true leaders--the gutsy, scrappy, sometimes scruffy and always ingenious grassroots agitators and organizers who go right ...
Oct 10, 2002 / Jim Hightower
A Union on the Line A Union on the Line
With its future at stake, the ILWU will not go down without a fight.
Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / David Bacon
October Surprises October Surprises
October surprises are built into our system, since elections come in November. Cliffhanger movies in Hollywood's old days could not have staged it better.
Oct 3, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
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
On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union
American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early