With union power waning, governments are implementing workers' rights. It's time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
Can Government Pick Up Where Unions Left Off?
Anti-Free Market Republicans Want to Kill the USPS to Create a Monopoly for UPS and FedEx
One of the reasons Republicans drool to end the USPS is that it delivers millions of parcels every single day, and at a low cost that keeps private carriers' (FedEx and U.P.S.) prices in check.
Michiganders Force Returning Lawmakers to Take the Walk of Shame
More than 100 Michigan workers welcomed back their lawmakers to the Capitol with shouts of 'Shame!', after they voted to force workers to work for less.
States Offer Up Many Consequential Ballot Measures
Nearly 180 ballot measures face a vote on Tuesday. Here are a few of the most consequential initiatives to watch.
Republicans Won’t Stop Their Assault on Unions Until Every State is Right-to-Work
Collective bargaining has been under attack. Now, the upcoming elections are hazardous as the GOP seeks to impose more right-to-work laws
Ever Since Citizens United Unions Have Been Under Siege
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
Scott Walker Pulls a Palin and Stabs Romney In the Back
Scott Walker pulled a Sarah Palin special on Romney today, dissing the Republican nominee's 2012 strategy, while setting himself up as the 2016 GOP savior.
Why Michigan Is Not the Next Wisconsin
Rick Snyder is not Scott Walker. Both of them are repulsive in their own right, and each of their states would be considerably better off with them gone, but there are some significant differences.
More than 100 Cities Celebrate Worker Power with May Day
Throughout America, over 100 cities celebrated the importance and power of working people in a May Day of rallies, teach-ins, walk-outs, marches and protests.
Unions Fight Back with Largest Political Mobilization Ever For Obama
Trumka's decision to throw the full force of the nation's largest union behind Obama will go a long way toward providing the margin of victory that Obama and the other Democratic 2012 contenders will need to get the job done.
Fighter In Chief President Obama Gives Epic Speech to UAW- Full Video
Allow me to introduce you to your fierce, pissed off fighter-in-chief, President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama took the stage today in Washington speaking to the United Auto Workers to wild cheers of “Four more years!” And let me tell you something…. This was an epic, genuinely passionate speech about Obama’s betting on the American worker and his faith in the spirit of Americans who are their brothers and sisters keepers.
Romney Calls Santorum’s Robocalls to MI Democrats ‘Outrageous and Disgusting’
Mitt Romney flip flops again. Today Romney told Fox and Friends that it was “outrageous and disgusting” for Santorum to try to get Michigan Democrats to vote in Republican primaries in order to push the seemingly unelectable Rick Santorum to the top.
Mitt Romney Announces His Plan To Pull A Bain On Detroit’s Auto Industry
It is not surprising Romney is pushing the tactic he employed while head of Bain Capital to try to kill Detroit's auto industry.
Inside The Sickness That Makes Republicans Hate Poor Children
There is a sickness inherent in many Republican supporters that makes them hate the poor and extending their contempt to poor children is a natural progression.
Republicans Destroy Middle Class Dreams One Busted Union At a Time
Corporate protection at the expense of worker safety is endemic of conservative's ideology that corporations must be protected at any cost. Demonizing unions is just another way conservatives give corporations power to control America.