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Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

Poet Beau Beausoleil, in a moment of introspection, considers the necessity and the limits of activism.

At the airport in La Lima, Honduras, planeloads of deportee arrive every day—many without their children.

“At a time when Republicans are polling at historic lows, Democrats need to capitalize and offer a better vision for the country,” said one critic. “This isn’t it.”

A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.

The president’s slush-fund-and-tax-penalty “settlement” is brazenly criminal. If our governing institutions can’t block it, America will officially be a banana republic.

Community benefit agreements can secure strong labor protections, environmental standards, and local investments.

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Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are voting on a last minute contract agreement with UCLA. The tentative agreement includes wage and step increases and seniority protections but excludes housing.

A reverie for an esteemed playwright.