Labor

Rotten Apples, Core Values Rotten Apples, Core Values

Profits are booming, but Mott's is demanding benefit cuts. Workers are fighting back.

Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Ari Paul

The Unemployed Netroots Are Gaining Power The Unemployed Netroots Are Gaining Power

There are people who have been unemployed for six months and there are some who have been unemployed for 99 months or more. Congress should watch out for the 1.5 million unemployed...

Jul 29, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show

The Grinches Who Stole Summer

The Grinches Who Stole Summer The Grinches Who Stole Summer

With their lock-step vote against extending unemployment benefits, the Republicans are indelibly marked as not only heartless but also frivolous.

Jul 21, 2010 / Robert Scheer

Slide Show: Firestone’s ‘State Within a State’ in Liberia Slide Show: Firestone’s ‘State Within a State’ in Liberia

For over 85 years, Firestone’s massive rubber plantation in western Liberia has operated as a state within a state, not only serving as the second largest employer in a count…

Jul 19, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Press Room

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