August 22, 2011 -
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Time for another Labor South round-up: Verizon workers in Virginia join walkout
August 22, 2011 -
There is growing concern on the Gulf Coast that oil is rising again from BP's Macondo well, site of last year's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill, with reports of oil sightings in the area confirmed last week during aerial surveillance by a team from Louisiana's Gulf Restoration Network.
August 19, 2011 -
The flaming drinkin
August 19, 2011 -
By Kung Li
August 18, 2011 -
Number of lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction --
August 17, 2011 -
The Brave New Foundation video released earlier this week about the Koch brothers' role in the fight over school re-segregation in Wake County, N
August 17, 2011 -
Thirteen labor unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO are refusing to participate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. because of the state's harsh anti-union laws. But that decision isn't sitting well with labor leaders in North Carolina, who helped lobby for Charlotte to be the convention site. North Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with only 3.2 percent of its workers belonging to a union.