On the Money On the Money
Massive resources are at stake in the debate roiling the AFL-CIO's Las Vegas summit.
Mar 2, 2005 / Feature / David Moberg
Can’t Workers of the World Unite? Can’t Workers of the World Unite?
Labor debates its future.
Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / David Moberg
Cancer, Chemicals and History Cancer, Chemicals and History
Companies try to discredit the experts.
Jan 20, 2005 / Feature / Jon Wiener
Trading Down Trading Down
In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...
Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg
Lessons for Labor Lessons for Labor
What unions did right--and wrong--in the 2004 election.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / David Moberg
A Moral Minimum Wage A Moral Minimum Wage
The Democrats should start framing economic justice as a moral issue.
Dec 6, 2004 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Take It to the Blue States Take It to the Blue States
Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.
Nov 11, 2004 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan
With Friends Like These With Friends Like These
Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published "second thoughts" by embittered apostates.
Nov 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Union Makes Its Bed Union Makes Its Bed
On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees--all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE--walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their...
Oct 7, 2004 / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Be Our Guests Be Our Guests
Guest workers in the US are routinely punished for asserting their rights.
Sep 9, 2004 / Feature / David Bacon