Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

Esther Kaplan

The business lobby declares war on the Employee Free Choice Act.

Learning About Labor

Hugh Baran : Student Movements

This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new President should restore workers' rights ASAP.

United Electric Worker Speaks Out

Grit TV

A labor organizer from Chicago sheds light on the ongoing protest for wages owed to Republic Windows and Doors workers.

Blue-Collar Republicans

Christopher Hayes : Republican Party

The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.

Labor's New Push

David Moberg

Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.

Labor's War on Global Warming

Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Peace Activism

Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.

Firestone's Super Bowl Fumble

Ruthie Ackerman : Liberia

Few people watching the Firestone-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show are aware of the company's reputation in Liberia for harsh working conditions, child labor and environmental ruin.

Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea

David Bacon : Mexico

If the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico succeed in smashing a miners' strike, the reverberations will be felt even across the US border.

Beyond the Labor Board

Max Fraser

Partisan appointments to Bush's National Labor Relations Board have ensured it's virtually impossible for workers to get a fair shake.

Noted.

Guest blogging at The Nation.com, gazing into Kristol's ball, revisiting Hoover's roundup.

Writers of the World Unite

Luvh Rakhe : Internet & New Media

Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.

Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King

Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours

The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.

Permalancers, Unite!

Anya Kamenetz : Television

Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.

WGA: Picket and Click It

Christopher Lisotta : Internet & New Media

As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.

Writers Strike, Silence Falls

Barbara Ehrenreich : Television

As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's nothing but reality.

Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?

Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Wages & Hours

Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?

Father of History

Christopher Phelps : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left

Bettina Aptheker's recent memoir has incited fierce debate over her father s legacy.

UAW R.I.P.?

Max Fraser : United Auto Workers (UAW)

To save the domestic auto industry, the UAW may end up killing itself.

South Africa's Winter of Discontent

William Johnson : South Africa

As the gap widens between rich and poor, millions of black workers are challenging African National Congress rule. How did a victory against apartheid turn into class war?

Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories

Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis : Argentina

Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.

Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?

Liza Featherstone : Health Insurance

SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?

Michael Moore's Sicko

Christopher Hayes : Film

Michael Moore's healthcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.

Coming to America

Felicia Mello : Latinos

The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.

Laboring for Edwards

Marc Cooper : Electoral Politics

John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.

Murder in Monterrey

Felicia Mello : Latinos

A labor organizer was beaten to death after exposing exploitative labor practices in the United States and Mexico.