Labor

Cesar’s Ghost Cesar’s Ghost

Cesar, who was always good at symbols, saved his best for last: a simple pine box, fashioned by his brother's hands, carried unceremoniously through the Central Valley town he made...

Jan 21, 2006 / Feature / Frank Bardacke

Employee Free Choice Employee Free Choice

Pass the Employee Free Choice Act to create more unions, keep workers safe from labor-law violations, preserve middle-class jobs and stabilize the economy.

Jan 19, 2006 / Feature / George Miller

Working-Class Hero Working-Class Hero

While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...

Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones

New York’s Real Transit Crisis New York’s Real Transit Crisis

New York City's first transit strike in a quarter-century resulted in an agreement that both the union leadership and the MTA insist is the greatest contract ever--but that the uni...

Dec 30, 2005 / Feature / Robert Fitch

A Fight for the Future A Fight for the Future

New York City transit workers, now back on the job after a two-day strike, are fighting for the rights of future workers and against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessi...

Dec 22, 2005 / Feature / Joshua Freeman

Bitter Winter at NYU Bitter Winter at NYU

Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching ...

Dec 21, 2005 / Scott Sherman

Out of Place Out of Place

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, portraits of the Moroccan immigrants in Spain, gracefully evokes the unease of immigrants caught adrift between the stagnation of their old homes...

Dec 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Emily Lodish

Human Rights at Work Human Rights at Work

Labor issues involve not only economic rights, but also human rights, in the US, but especially in nations around the world where the right of free speech and assembly is not a giv...

Dec 8, 2005 / David Moberg

Beyond Braceros Beyond Braceros

In a misguided GOP reform effort, Congress is ready to pass measures that would militarize border controls, violate workers' rights and give corporations a new bracero program. Imm...

Dec 8, 2005 / David Bacon

Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust

General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decis...

Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

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