18 April 2009
Although many Americans have been hit hard by the continuing – and alarming – growth of unemployment, none have come close to being hit as devastatingly hard as the country’s African-American workers.

The unemployment rate...
28 March 2009
Another season of professional baseball is upon us, another season of a sport that’s billed as the “National Pastime,” yet bars half the population – the female half – from the playing field.

Major and minor league teams, as...
22 March 2009
It’s way past time that Congress declared the March 31 birthdate of Cesar Chavez a national holiday. President Obama agrees. So do the millions of people who are expected to sign petitions being circulated by the United Farm Workers, the...
14 March 2009
The preliminaries are over and what’s certain to be one of the fiercest political fights in many years is finally underway. It pits the nation’s labor unions and their Democratic allies against the pillars of corporate America and their...
07 March 2009
Yes, the National Labor Relations Act says workers have the right to organize and join unions. Yet a new study shows that growing numbers of them risk being fired for attempting to unionize.

In more than one-fourth of the...
22 February 2009
Those who are seeking reform of the woefully inadequate health care system have a new and powerful ally that aims to put the bulk of the country’s registered nurses behind a drive to guarantee decent health care to all Americans.
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