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Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 04:03
It's time for President Obama to help the country's home care workers.
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 02:21
Commentary: Student athletes get very little of the millions generated by college football's bowl games.
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 04:01
Commentary: It's time to enact a proposed law that would give workers the absolute right to unionization.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 04:13
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Raising the minimum wage should be a key post-election priority.
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 04:33
Commentary: Labor faces its greatest election challenge in California.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
Commentary: John Steinbeck was a great champion of farm labor.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:56
Commentary: Although we're recovering from the Great Recession, most of the new jobs are low-paying, non-union jobs.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 03:01
Urgently needed "green retrofitting" of the nation's infrastructure can benefit everyone
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Anti-labor forces have launched a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and unions.
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 05:51
Labor is planning an extensive campaign for President Obama's re-election.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 03:23
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:07
The Internet has had a profound impact on media labor coverage.
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 07:03
It's been a hundred years since women textile workers waged one of the most important strikes in US labor history.
- Added: Jul 05, 2012
- Length: 05:16
Although unemployment in the private sector is declining, it's growing in the public sector.
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 03:50
A new study shows that union members are healthier than non-union workers.
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 02:55
President Obama has rightly honored activist Dolores Huerta.
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 05:58
Labor showed important political strength in its failed bid to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
- Added: Jun 07, 2012
- Length: 03:04
Organized labor is facing major election challenges this month in Wisconsin and Arizona.
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 04:49
Graduation time is here, but graduates can't be sure of good jobs despite their education.
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 03:27
The right to unionization, a basic civil right, is under serious attack.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 04:04
The Colombian Free Trade Agreement aligns the US with a notorious abuser of workers and their unions.
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 03:54
It's essential that we raise Social Security benefits.
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 03:19