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Kentucky Battery Plant Joins UAW in Close Vote

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
The outcome of the election will ultimately hinge on the 41 challenged ballots. The union called those ballots “illegitimate,” and called on Ford to “drop their anti-democratic effort to undermine the outcome of the election.”

Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High

Jon Queally Common Dreams
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back.

In a Berlin Bar

Rafaella Del Bourgo
Poet Rafaella Del Bourgo offers a quick intro to sexual politics, reminding us that sex is "a tune both familiar and strange."

ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen

Constitutional auditor Robert Trudell exercised his rights to legally bypass an immigration checkpoint, sparking frustration from the immigration agents on the scene.

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina

Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. Democracy Now! speaks with Academy Award-nominated director, Traci A. Curry.

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Kate Wong Scientific American
Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.