Labor

Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP’s Big Tent Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP’s Big Tent

Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.

Dec 4, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Smithfield Walkout Challenges Agribiz Giant Smithfield Walkout Challenges Agribiz Giant

Last week's walkout at the Smithfield Packing Company was a significant victory for labor organizers and exploited undocumented workers at the North Carolina plant.

Nov 20, 2006 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Immigrants Regroup Immigrants Regroup

This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

Oct 26, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Downsized but Not Out Downsized but Not Out

United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

Oct 19, 2006 / Barbara Ehrenreich and Tamara Draut

Laboring Toward Election Day Laboring Toward Election Day

Despite the split following the 2004 election, labor groups are gearing up for the November elections like never before.

Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / David Moberg

Hog Hell Hog Hell

Low wages, segregation and dangerous working conditions in a North Carolina factory reveal a meatpacking industry where labor laws no longer matter.

Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Eric Schlosser

Hard Labor Hard Labor

The organic label means your food is pesticide-free, but an investigation into California farms reveals that the label means nothing but pain for the workers who produced it.

Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Felicia Mello

The New Nativism The New Nativism

The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill tha...

Aug 10, 2006 / The Editors

Baseball Begins to Listen to Sweatshop Foes Baseball Begins to Listen to Sweatshop Foes

After pressure from the local newspaper and the City Council questioning the use of sweatshop labor to create Pittsburgh Pirates regalia, Major League Baseball seems willing to lis...

Jul 14, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin and Derek Tyner

Mexico’s Labor Rebels Mexico’s Labor Rebels

On July 2, Mexico will choose a new president. Whoever wins will face an ongoing labor movement challenging the neoliberal policies of the past.

Jun 28, 2006 / Feature / David Bacon

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