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The spirit of the activists occupying the Capitol in Madison hasn’t changed. The movement hasn’t retreated in the slightest. As every day brings new busloads of unionists and supporters, the activists are re-energized.
Labor’s 2011 political battles don’t end at the Beltway. Anti-union forces are pushing bills and ballot measures to limit workers’ rights and curb union power from Maine to Hawaii. A special Labor Notes map keeps track.
Five thousand workers converged on Indiana’s statehouse Monday, in what participants said was the start of a Wisconsin-style week of protests against a range of anti-worker bills before the legislature.
While all eyes turn to the huge rallies and political turmoil playing out in the Midwest—Wisconsin has been joined by Ohio, Indiana, and tomorrow Michigan—workers elsewhere fight the same battles on smaller stages.
For five years, CWAers across the country have worked with allies, including major civil rights organizations, the Sierra Club, and others, to build a campaign to bring high-speed internet to rural and urban America.
Thousands of workers, mostly public employee union members but also from the private sector, rallied at the Capitol in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday to stop a senate bill that would end public workers’ collective bargaining rights. Watch video here.
As Egyptian citizens celebrate their first victory on the way to democracy, worker organizers looked to continue the wave of organizing that led to dozens of strikes in the regime’s last days and afterward.
Ohio labor is mobilizing across the state as the new right-wing governor, John Kasich, leads a high-profile effort to demolish public employee unions, while gouging holes in the state’s already weak public safety net.
Protests continue into the fourth day here in Madison and the mood is electric. Representatives of nearly every major union in Wisconsin have come to the capitol in solidarity with state workers, clearly recognizing the bill as a union-buster having nothing to do with the budget.
The last the demonstrators in the Wisconsin Capitol heard, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state, leaving the Senate one vote shy of a quorum and unable to consider Governor Scott Walker’s bill to strip us of our bargaining rights.
The Restaurant Opportunities Center released a report this week showing nearly 90 percent of restaurant workers have no health insurance or paid sick days. The worker center called for an increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers, still just $2.13 an hour. It would be the first increase...
Teachers’ unions have announced a return to work in Wisconsin, but the protests will not let up. Meanwhile, some union leaders have said they will accept the governor’s economic takeaways. Rank and filers say they've already given too much.
Wisconsin’s Republican governor inadvertently issued a wake-up call to the state’s labor movement by pushing legislation that would crush public employee unions. Wisconsin unions and allies quickly rallied, flooding the Capitol.
As a nurse who has had her life and career forever altered from a debilitating back injury that occurred on the job, I am outraged by the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw a rule requiring employers to report musculoskeletal injuries to the Occupational Safety and...
Tonight the mood is not only peaceful, it is exuberant, joyful, celebratory: dancing, fire throwers, firecrackers, cheers, yells, and joy in the air. Egypt is finally free. An American writes from Cairo.
