2/29/2008 7:01:47 PM
A few days ago, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a fascinating report that confirms a lot of what we've been seeing in our American Dream Surveys -- namely, that disturbingly large numbers of working men and...
2/26/2008 9:44:51 PM
The UFCW, along with leading labor and civil rights specialists held the first in a series of nationwide hearings in Washington, D.C. on Monday to examine the enforcement tactics used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE): At...
2/21/2008 10:01:47 PM
In a few minutes, we will make the official announcement to the media that Change to Win is endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. Here are some excerpts from the remarks that Change to Win...
2/20/2008 10:30:36 PM
On Friday, February 8, the Imperial Sugar processing plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, exploded. The explosion killed at least eight workers and sent dozens more to the hospital. It took firefighters a week to put out the fire. What caused...
2/20/2008 2:27:27 AM
Remember when I told you last week that the Teamsters were going to be rallying in San Francisco last week as part of their campaign to Fire Mary Peters? Well, the rally was a big success. Nearly 600 people turned...
2/14/2008 10:31:11 PM
Anyone following the op-ed pages of the New York Times over the last few days would have been treated to two diametrically opposed perspectives on the state of the average American worker's finances. For the sake of convenience, let's...
2/13/2008 11:03:19 PM
The House of Representatives' Committee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law is hearing testimony right now on misconduct by ICE -- the border security agency whose sweeps through meatpacking plants last year ended up infringing the...
2/13/2008 8:21:19 PM
If you had to guess what each of the dots on the map above represented, what would you guess? Here's the answer: each dot represents a worker who was killed on the job in 2007. And here's the even...