Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."
"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.
Labor organizations in the Golden State likely have seen greater stability because of the pro-union political leadership here and the creativity and energy of organizers.
How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today
Unions are alarmed by the plan for the Federal Labor Relations Authority, saying it will give the president more power over the federal workforce.
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.
How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.
The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.
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