Labor

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

Arnold Show: Canceled Arnold Show: Canceled

Buoyed by their defeat of Schwarzeneggar's "referendum revolution," Democrats and organized labor are now energized to defeat the governor's re-election bid next year.

Nov 10, 2005 / Marc Cooper

The Delphi Oracle The Delphi Oracle

The cynical restructuring plan for bankrupt Delphi Automotive calls for massive wage and benefit givebacks for 51,000 American workers. Governors of affected states must craft stra...

Nov 10, 2005 / The Editors

Spin Control at Wal-Mart Spin Control at Wal-Mart

A hard-hitting documentary, an embarrassing leaked memo on healthcare and abandonment by customers who don't like its politics. It's getting harder these days for Wal-Mart to put o...

Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench

Delphi's bankruptcy is a marker of a new America in which there is no collective security, no union to make you strong, no government to give you shelter, in which workers stand al...

Oct 14, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

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