Labor
June 10, 2013 -
Taxpayers help support companies that are hostile to worker organizing through economic development subsidies and also through social safety net programs such as Medicaid and food stamps.
May 22, 2013 -
While fighting a union at its plant in Canton, Miss., Nissan makes a big gift to the Evers Institute -- perhaps forgetting that civil rights martyr Medgar Evers was a big union supporter.
April 12, 2013 -
Pipeliners Local 798 is protesting Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan's decision to award a contract to non-union Loutex for construction of a gas pipeline in south Mississippi.
April 1, 2013 -
Cheap labor, regressive taxes, federal dependency: Is the South's economic approach really an example for the nation?
March 21, 2013 -
Multiemployer health care plans bargained by unions should have been a model for U.S. health care reform, but the Affordable Care Act tilts the playing field against them.
March 13, 2013 -
A national day of action on March 24 will call on Congress to keep Saturday mail delivery, but postal worker unions have other demands to halt the push toward USPS privatization.
March 4, 2013 -
What was true for the civil rights movement in the 1960s is true for the labor movement today: Any social movement in the South needs religion as part of its DNA if it's going to succeed.
