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LaborTalk: Change-to-Win Is a Failure After 4 Years; UNITE-HERE Split Adds New Questions - February 26, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: My Response to a Personal Attack By the Head of the Georgia AFL-CIO- February 17, 2009 Read Column
LaborTalk: A 'Bottoms-Up' Strategy Is Needed To Solve Nation's Economic Crisis - December 31, 2008 Read Column
LaborTalk: Obama Names Task Force to Assist Middle-Class and Working Families - December 24, 2008 Read Column
LaborTalk: White House Rejects Auto Bailout Plan, But Offers Support for a $25 Billion Loan - December 17, 2008 Read Column
It's Working People Who Will Rebuild America, So Why Not Give Some Recognition to Labor
- December 9, 2008 Read Column
LaborTalk: Working People Appear to Be Forgotten; Banks and Wall Street Feast on Bailouts - December 3, 2008 Read Column
LaborTalk: Citigroup Gets Huge, Quickie Bailout; 'Big 3' and Workers Are Left to Hang - November 26, 2008 Read Column
Expect Mass Layoffs to Get Worse in 2009, Our Leaders Must Challenge Employers - November 19, 2008 Read Column
Labor Expects EFCA to Be Passed in '09, But How Will Unions Use It to Organize? - November 12, 2008 Read Column
Barack Obama Is Elected U.S. President; A New Milestone in Our Racial History - November 5, 2008 Read Column
Labor Leaders Have No Plan to Fight The Growing Torrent of New Layoffs - October 29, 2008 Read Column
'Putting People First' Is How New Deal Handled the Nation's Great Depression - October 22, 2008 Read Column
$250 Billion Given to 9 Major Banks; Not a Penny to Help Working People - October 15, 2008 Read Column
Workers Pay the Price for Bailout: Heavy Layoffs and Foreclosures Labor Leaders Failed to Act and Were Ignored - October 8, 2008 Read Column
Congress Rejects 'Bailout' of Wall Street, Labor Has Chance to Revise Flawed Plan - October 1, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Voices Strong Criticism Of $700 Billion 'Bailout' of Banks - September 24, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Should Demand Jobs Program For Economic Crisis and Infrastructure - September 17, 2008 Read Column
Ethics Probe in Scandal-Ridden SEIU Must Begin with President Andy Stern
- September 10, 2008 Read Column
Meat Company Asks Supreme Court to Deny Illegal Workers the Right to Join Unions - September 3, 2008 Read Column
SEIU Local Head, an Andy Stern Protégé, Used Union Funds for Family Deals - August 27, 2008 Read Column
A CEO's Pay Is 364 Times of a Worker's Pay; Are You Angry? What Will You Do About it? - August 19, 2008 Read Column
Why the 51-Member AFL-CIO Council Does Very Little for Working Families - August 13, 2008 Read Column
Wal-Mart Joins Campaign to Defeat EFCA; Labor Must Widen Appeal to Other Groups - August 6, 2008 Read Column
What Should the Government Do About Fannie May and Freddy Mac? - July 30, 2008 Read Column
Labor Dept. Mishandled Worker Complaints Of Cheating on Overtime and Unpaid Wages - July 23, 2008 Read Column
'Big Government' Will Have to Solve Crises In Energy, Housing, Credit and Health Care - July 16, 2008 Read Column
How Should Trade Unions Deal With Tough Economic Times? - July 9, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Endorsement of Senator Obama Provides His Candidacy with New Strength - July 2, 2008 Read Column
Why No Action from 60 Million Workers Who Say They'd Like to Join a Union? - June 25, 2008 Read Column
Some Friendly Advice to Senator Obama: Beware of Corporate Takeover of 'Change' - June 18, 2008 Read Column
Unions Offer No Practical Solutions To Mounting Layoffs and Outsourcing - June 11, 2008 Read Column
Stern Imposes Corporate Model on Union; Sets Up Call Centers to Handle Grievances - June 4, 2008 Read Column
Steelworkers' 'Blue-Green Alliance' Seeks New Good Jobs and a Clean Environment - May 28, 2008 Read Column
Labor Can Play a Critical Role to Enable The Democrats to Win the White House - May 21, 2008 Read Column
Give Jobs to Idle Construction Workers To Prevent More Infrastructure Disasters - April 23, 2008 Read Column
Busloads of SEIUers Stage Physical Attack At Labor Notes Meeting of Union Activists - April 16, 2008 Read Column
Is Andy Stern's SEIU Organizing Model Good or Harmful for Workers and Unions? - April 9, 2008 Read Column
When Will Our Troops Be Brought Home? How Much Longer Will We Occupy Iraq? - March 26, 2008 Read Column
There's a Smarter, More Effective Strategy To Promote the Employee Free Choice Act - March 19, 2008 Read Column
AFL-CIO Council Plans Campaign to Win Election and Legislative Victories in 2009 - March 12, 2008 Read Column
How Should Working Americans Regard Clinton's 'Experience' and Obama's 'Hope'? - March 5, 2008 Read Column
Homeland Security's 160,000 Workers Retain Right to Collective Bargaining - February 27, 2008 Read Column
795 Superdelegates Could Pick Nominee, Wiping Out Choices of Millions of Voters - February 20, 2008 Read Column
The AFL-CIO Has No Plan to Organize Workers Until Congress Passes Employee Free Choice Act - February 13, 2008 Read Column
Union Leadership Remains Passive and Silent While Workers Feel Impact of Economic Crisis - February 6, 2008 Read Column
The Good News and the Bad News About Labor's Organizing Efforts - January 30, 2008 Read Column
Workers Can't Rely on Unions To Protect Them from Firings - January 23, 2008 Read Column
Unions Aren't Reaching Unorganized Workers with a Message That Deals with Their Concerns - January 16, 2008 Read Column
Many Unions Put Organizing on Hold, Waiting for a Law to Curb Employers - January 9, 2008 Read Column
If Unions Are So Good for Workers, Why Aren't Millions Rushing to Join? - January 2, 2008 Read Column