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LaborTalk: Why Can’t American Labor Build Its Own Cooperative ‘Mondragon’? - August 27, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Congress Passed the Social Security Act During the Grim Years of the Great Depression - August 24, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: ‘Change to Win’ Was Doomed to Failure In Effort to Build a Rival Labor Federation - August 20, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Banks in Foreign Countries Have Union Contracts But Only a Mere 1% of U.S. Banks Are Unionized - August 17, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Unions Can Organize New Members While Conducting Their Election Campaigns - August 13, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: What’s the Future for Millions of Jobless Workers Who Will Lose Their Benefits after November 30? - August 10, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO Pins Its Hopes on an Election Victory; Cuts in Jobs and Wages Continue in ‘Recovery’- August 6, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL –CIO Leaders Use a Phony Argument To Justify Their Corrupt Voting System - August 3, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Unions Allow Companies to Squeeze Huge Profits By More Job Cuts and Exploiting Their Workforce - July 30, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO Executive Council Finally Adopts An Ethical Practices Code - July 30, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: 'One Delegate, One Vote': Will Each Executive Council Member Vote for Honest AFL-CIO Elections? - July 23, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO’s Web Applauds Absurd Idea: ‘Finance Reform is Main Street Victory’ - July 20, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: 'One Delegate, One Vote'—For 124 Years, Only International Officials Were Elected to AFL-CIO Executive Council - July 16, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: A Farm Workers Union Leader Offers A Unique Message and Sound Advice - July 13, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: What Is Missing in the Jobs Campaign Is a Strong Voice from the Unemployed - July 9, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Working for a Labor Union Is the Cushiest Job in the U.S. - July 6, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Senate Blocks Aid for 1.7 Million Jobless, Ready to Enjoy a Week-Long July 4 Holiday - July 2, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Whirlpool Moves to Mexico to Cut Labor Costs; Unions Are Unable to Stop Exodus of U.S. Jobs - June 29, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Time for a Frank, Heart-to-Heart Talk About the AFL-CIO and its Members - June 25, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: A ‘No-Show’ AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Is Paid $238,976 a Year + a 60 % Pension - June 22, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The Nurses’ Union Shines a Bright Pathway To a Bigger and Stronger Labor Movement - June 18, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Will 32 Million People Get Health Care? What about the Other 13 Million Uninsured? - June 15, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Both Congress and Corporate America Are Reluctant To Create Jobs, So What Should Unions Be Doing? - June 11, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Sweeney and Trumka Tricked Members To Grab 4-Year Term by an Illegal Voice Vote Clause - June 8, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Brother Trumka’s Supporters Are Invited To Inform Us About His Achievements - June 4, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Trumka and the Labor Press Bury Scandal About Removal of ‘Ethical Practices’ Clause - June 1, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The House Ditches Jobs Bill to Enjoy Holiday; AFL-CIO Leaders Have No Fighting Answer - May 28, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Who Removed the ‘Ethical Practices’ Clause From the AFL-CIO Constitution? -- And Why? - May 25, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Brother Trumka, What Do You Do for Members, Besides Making Your Anti-Wall Street Speeches? - May 21, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO Won’t Ask Major Banks for a Dime, Despite Demands to ‘Make Wall Street Pay’ - May 18, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Lots of Green Jobs for Union Members If Labor Establishes Its Own Companies - May 14, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The Employment Picture Is Improving! Only 15.3 Million People without Jobs! - May 11, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO Is Opposed to Arizona Immigration Law, But Is Silent about Attacks on Targeted Workers - May 7, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Brother Trumka: Your Silence is not an Answer. How Do You Intend to ‘Make Wall Street Pay’? - May 4, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Trumka Continues to Shadow-Box the Banks; His Phony Campaign to ‘Make Wall Street Pay’ - April 30, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The Union of the Unemployed Is Growing; In 3 Months, It Gained 1,950 Job Activists - April 27, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Obama Proposes an Independent Board To Play Leading Role in Health-Care Law - April 22, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why Do Our Labor Leaders Refuse to Talk About the War in Iraq and Afghanistan? - April 20, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: A Proven Way to Curb the Big Banks From Risky Gambles with Our Money - April 16, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Trumka Warns Harvard Audience of Plots To Poison Workers’ Anger with Hatred - April 13, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: What Happens to 47 Million (+) Uninsured From Today to Year 2014—and Beyond? - April 9, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Trumka Attacks the Banks with Speeches; What’s His Plan to ‘Make Wall Street Pay’? - April 6, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Whirlpool to Move Production to Mexico, Despite Appeals to Keep Jobs in the U.S. - April 2, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: LaborTalk: ILCA Media Members Will Give Themselves A Barrel of Awards to Celebrate Their Talents - March 30, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: LaborTalk: Union Rallies and Marches Are Important, But They Won’t Compel Wall Street to Pay - March 26, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Democrats Win Historic Health Insurance Law; Tough Hurdles to Universal Coverage Remain - March 23, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The ‘Union of the Unemployed’ Is Continuing To Grow Under Its Unique Organizing Model - March 19, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Let’s See the Contract the Labor College Signed with its New Corporate ‘Partner’ - March 16, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: What Are the Terms of the ‘Partnership’ Between NLC and an Investing Company? (Part 4) - March 11, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Will Online Courses at the Labor College Develop a Student’s Leadership Skills? (Part 3) - March 9, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why the National Labor College Attracts So Few Unionists to its Degree Programs (Part 2) - March 5, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: National Labor College Takes a Partner, Offers Online Degrees to Union Members (Part 1) - March 1, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Awarding Companies for Hiring Workers Is Not a Good Answer to Jobs Problem - February 25, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: The Unemployed Have Begun to Organize Their Own Union to Press Fight for Jobs - February 23, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Can Democrats Hold the Loyalty Of Union Voters in 2010 Elections? - February 18, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Our Old Problem: What Will Convince Unorganized Workers to join a Union? - February 16, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Will Big Business Solve Job Crisis? Will Millions Never Enjoy a Steady Job? - February 11, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why the AFL-CIO and Solidarity Center Won’t Ever Mention ‘The World of Labor’ - February 9, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Let’s Prevent a Repeat of 1994 Election When Republicans Recaptured Congress - February 4, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Did We Allow 800,000 Members To End Ties with the AFL-CIO in 2008? - February 2, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Obama Reaffirms Jobs as No. 1 Priority; Needs Labor’s Support to Win Congress- January 28, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Union Membership in the Private Sector Shrunk by 800,000 in 2008, BLS Reports- January 26, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Let’s Accept the Republican Threat To Filibuster the Health-Care Bill- January 21, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Machinists Help Millions of Jobless To Form a Union of the Unemployed - January 19, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: Is It Humane—Or Even Smart—to Freeze 12 Million People from Health Insurance? - January 14, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: American Workers Are Taking a Beating, So Why Don’t They Start Fighting Back?- January 12, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: An Astounding Intelligence Report From Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler - January 7, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: New 150,000-Strong Nurses Union Emerges As Leading Fighter for RNs and Health Care - January 5, 2010 Read Column
LaborTalk: After Two Decades That Show No Progress, Can the AFL-CIO Grow Without Changes? - December 31, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why Won’t Trumka Mobilize Union Membership To Make Health Care Bill Fair to Working People? - December 29, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: How Much Clout Does Organized Labor Possess While Dems Control Congress and White House? - December 24, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Employers Are Sticking to Hiring Only ‘Temps’; New Problems for Jobless Workers and Unions - December 22, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Trumka Scores High in Responses to Call-Ins From Members, but Ignores ‘How to’ Problems - December 17, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Change to Win Joins the Parade to Offer Proposals to Create Millions of New Jobs - December 15, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Organized Labor Adopts Amnesia Policy Toward Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - December 10, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO’s 5-Point Jobs Plan Offers No Muscle To Pressure Congress for Funds or Structure - December 8, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Without ‘Card Check.’ What Is EFCA Worth? What Kind of Substitute Will Labor Accept? - December 3, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why Do AFL-CIO Leaders Maintain A Strict Disconnect with Members? - December 1, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Why Does the AFL-CIO Refuse to Mention The Subject of Abortion to Its Members? - November 24, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO and Allies Have List of Quick Actions For White House ‘Jobs Summit’ on Dec. 3 - November 19, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO’s New Secretary-Treasurer Earns $238,976, But Refuses to Discuss Her Job - November 17, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Who Says the Economic Recession Is Over, When 15.7 million Workers Can’t Find a Job? - November 12, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Poor Nations Offer Paid Sick Leave; Why Can’t U.S. Workers Receive It? - November 10, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Both Parties Exclude Illegal Immigrants From Benefits of Health Insurance Bill - November 5, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Steelworkers Create a Working Agreement With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op - November 3, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: A ‘Showdown in Chicago’ Rally Against Bankers Attracts 5,000 Enraged People Who Want Reforms - October 29, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: AFL-CIO’s Dull, Narrowly-Based Culture Has No Appeal to Young Working People - October 27, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: States with the Highest Unemployment Received Fewest Number of Jobs from Stimulus Contracts - October 22, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Government Threatens Employers with Fines Unless They Fire All Undocumented Workers- October 13, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Let’s Tell President Obama to Declare An Immediate Moratorium on Layoffs - October 8, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: While CEOs Continue to Grab Their Millions, Why Can’t Workers Get a Share of the Profits? - October 6, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: Changing the Relationship in the Workplace So Workers Deserve More, and Bosses, Less - October 1, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: With 14.5 Million Unemployed, How Many Jobs Can Labor Create? And How Will We Do It? - September 29, 2009 Read Column