Forget Joe the Plumber. One of America's real working class heroes is Jeff the truck driver. Jeff Wallace, 43, has been on the picket lines for si...
Elana Levin | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics
Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.
Elana Levin | Posted 08.28.2008 | Style
Today everyone will learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew -- that if you bother to buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too -- and by that I mean union made.
AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
If you want to give a name to the coming era in American politics, you could call it the Return of Government. I think of the years between the time ...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business
There always seems to be plenty of money and will to rescue financial giants, but when the working stiffs of America need help to get paid, our government doesn't have enough resources to help.
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Meatpacking at a unionized facility was at one time a ticket to a middle-class life. Today, thanks to absurdly lax enforcement of immigration laws, the same type of work buys a peasant's existence.
Richard Trumka | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
Killer candy from Mexico and toxic toys from Chinese factories should be part of a B grade horror film. Instead, recalls involving 20 million toys and...
Stewart Acuff | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
By Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, and Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Research Coordinator Amid the chatter about the worsening e...
Sally Kohn | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Community values voters are already the lifeblood of our nation. This election, they will be the pulse of our politics as well.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home