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Meat Company Asks Supreme Court to Deny Illegal Workers the Right to Join Unions - September 3, 2008 Read Column
SEIU Local Head, an Andy Stern Protégé, Used Union Funds for Family Deals - August 27, 2008 Read Column
A CEO's Pay Is 364 Times of a Worker's Pay; Are You Angry? What Will You Do About it? - August 19, 2008 Read Column
Why the 51-Member AFL-CIO Council Does Very Little for Working Families - August 13, 2008 Read Column
Wal-Mart Joins Campaign to Defeat EFCA; Labor Must Widen Appeal to Other Groups - August 6, 2008 Read Column
What Should the Government Do About Fannie May and Freddy Mac? - July 30, 2008 Read Column
Labor Dept. Mishandled Worker Complaints Of Cheating on Overtime and Unpaid Wages - July 23, 2008 Read Column
'Big Government' Will Have to Solve Crises In Energy, Housing, Credit and Health Care - July 16, 2008 Read Column
How Should Trade Unions Deal With Tough Economic Times? - July 9, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Endorsement of Senator Obama Provides His Candidacy with New Strength - July 2, 2008 Read Column
Why No Action from 60 Million Workers Who Say They'd Like to Join a Union? - June 25, 2008 Read Column
Some Friendly Advice to Senator Obama: Beware of Corporate Takeover of 'Change' - June 18, 2008 Read Column
Unions Offer No Practical Solutions To Mounting Layoffs and Outsourcing - June 11, 2008 Read Column
Stern Imposes Corporate Model on Union; Sets Up Call Centers to Handle Grievances - June 4, 2008 Read Column
Steelworkers' 'Blue-Green Alliance' Seeks New Good Jobs and a Clean Environment - May 28, 2008 Read Column
Labor Can Play a Critical Role to Enable The Democrats to Win the White House - May 21, 2008 Read Column
Give Jobs to Idle Construction Workers To Prevent More Infrastructure Disasters - April 23, 2008 Read Column
Busloads of SEIUers Stage Physical Attack At Labor Notes Meeting of Union Activists - April 16, 2008 Read Column
Is Andy Stern's SEIU Organizing Model Good or Harmful for Workers and Unions? - April 9, 2008 Read Column
When Will Our Troops Be Brought Home? How Much Longer Will We Occupy Iraq? - March 26, 2008 Read Column
There's a Smarter, More Effective Strategy To Promote the Employee Free Choice Act - March 19, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Council Plans Campaign to Win Election and Legislative Victories in 2009 - March 12, 2008 Read Column
How Should Working Americans Regard Clinton's 'Experience' and Obama's 'Hope'? - March 5, 2008 Read Column
Homeland Security's 160,000 Workers Retain Right to Collective Bargaining - February 27, 2008 Read Column
795 Superdelegates Could Pick Nominee, Wiping Out Choices of Millions of Voters - February 20, 2008 Read Column
The AFL-CIO Has No Plan to Organize Workers Until Congress Passes Employee Free Choice Act - February 13, 2008 Read Column
Union Leadership Remains Passive and Silent While Workers Feel Impact of Economic Crisis - February 6, 2008 Read Column
The Good News and the Bad News About Labor's Organizing Efforts - January 30, 2008 Read Column
Workers Can't Rely on Unions To Protect Them from Firings - January 23, 2008 Read Column
Unions Aren't Reaching Unorganized Workers with a Message That Deals with Their Concerns - January 16, 2008 Read Column
Many Unions Put Organizing on Hold, Waiting for a Law to Curb Employers - January 9, 2008 Read Column
If Unions Are So Good for Workers, Why Aren't Millions Rushing to Join? - January 2, 2008 Read Column
2007 Was a Disappointing Year for Workers Despite the Democratic Control of Congress - December 26, 2007 Read Column
World Labor Summit Fails to Adopt Strategy To Fight Multinationals on Worker Rights - December 18, 2007 Read Column
Unions Pose No Defense Against 'Outsourcing' Despite Exodus of More Millions of U.S. Jobs - December 11, 2007 Read Column
World Labor Will Discuss New Strategies To Protect Workers in a Global Economy - December 4, 2007 Read Column
Unions Surrendered Their Strike Option And Weakened Their Bargaining Power - November 28, 2007 Read Column
American Workers Take Firings in Stride; Foreign Workers Fight to Save Their Jobs - November 21, 2007 Read Column
Stagehands Broadway Strike Is First in 121 Years As Producers Start to Force Work-Rule Changes - November 14, 2007 Read Column
Does Solidarity Center Exaggerate Its Role In the Global Struggle for Worker Rights? - November 7, 2007 Read Column
AFL-CIO's Top Organizer Pays Homage To a Real Democratic International Union - October 31, 2007 Read Column
Lincoln Had It Right: Labor is Prior To Capital; But Where is Labor NOW? - October 24, 2007 Read Column
How the Most Democratic Local Union Proved It Was the Toughest in Action - October 17, 2007 Read Column
What's Happened to the 'Quality of Life' Of American Workers and Their Families? - October 10, 2007 Read Column
Change-to-Win Made Very Few Gains Since Quitting AFL-CIO, Facts Reveal - October 2, 2007 Read Column
Unions Lost 2,704 Decertification Elections In Decade, Surrendering Former Victories - September 24, 2007 Read Column
Sweeney Rushes to Fill AFL-CIO's No. 3 With an Unknown Personal Assistant - September 17, 2007 Read Column
Unions Lost 2,704 Decertification Elections in Decade, Surrendering Former Victories - September 12, 2007 Read Column
Sweeney Discovers That Health Care Is a Big Problem for Working Families - September 5, 2007 Read Column
Sweeney, Unhappy with $40 Million, Wants New Tax on Union Members - August 29, 2007 Read Column
Homeland Security Presses Employers To Police War on Immigrant Workers - August 22, 2007 Read Column
AFL-CIO Council Meeting Says Nothing About Issues of Concern to All Workers - August 15, 2007 Read Column
Critics Raise Some Disturbing Questions About SEIU's New Giant Hospital Union - July 4, 2007 Read Column
Although Senate Blocked a Vote on EFCA, Labor Leaders Are Pleased by the Results - June 27, 2007 Read Column
AFL-CIO 'Old Guard' Controls the Votes to Block A Challenge from New Leaders - June 20, 2007 Read Column
We Must Demand a Meeting with Bush To Discuss Violations of Worker Rights - June 13, 2007 Read Column
Foreign Workers Fight Hard to Save Jobs; U.S. Workers Take Mass Layoffs in Stride - June 6, 2007 Read Column
Why Do Our Officials Remain Mute In the Public Debate on Hot Issues? - May 30, 2007 Read Column
If Employee Free Choice Act is Doomed, Has Labor a Plan B to Regain Its Power? - May 23, 2007 Read Column
Facts about Undocumented Workers, And the Options for Organized Labor - May 16, 2007 Read Column
Why Can't the Labor Press Become A Champion of Union Democracy? An 8-Count Indictment Of the Labor Media - May 9, 2007 Read Column
Immigrants Reclaim May Day Tradition In Numerous Rallies for Their Rights - May 2, 2007 Read Column