Economy
August 31, 2011 -
Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis.
August 26, 2011 -
By Joe Atkins, Labor South It all started in Mississippi. Of course.
August 22, 2011 -
By Joe Atkins, Labor South Time for another Labor South round-up: Verizon workers in Virginia join walkout
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.
August 16, 2011 -
By Barbara Ehrenreich, New America Media