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When it comes to the environment, organized labor has two hearts beating within a single breast.

Rights for Mother Earth, not Corporations

Computer modelling showed intensification of US-bound Pacific storms, driven by fine aerosols from coal power plants and traffic.

Jane McAlevey challenges the Left to stop lamenting its disappointments in the working class and address our own failures.

Conn Hallinan remembers Carl Bloice— Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, longtime journalist and lifetime advocate for the dispossessed.

Even without tobacco, the poorly regulated devices may pose unique dangers

Wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white, famous ex-boxer became advocate for other prisoners.

Dorji Khatri, Sherpa union leader, among those killed in Everest Avalanche. Sherpa guide anger over working conditions continues to rise.

For New Orleans, the debate over charter schools and teachers unions has always been an either-or proposition. The Orleans Parish School Board voided the city’s union contract after Hurricane Katrina, and charter schools began taking over rapidly thereafter. Now, New Orleans is beginning to find out if this hard divide between charters and unions is really necessary, or if the two can somehow learn to coexist.

There’s a significant labor economics literature that argues that job-to-job transitions are a major driver of wage growth for workers. If the number of people moving directly from one job to another is in decline, that’s a bad sign for wage growth, as well as inflation and monetary policy. This appears to be undertheorized and not discussed enough in academic or policy discussions.