LA Security Guards Score Major Victory
Four thousand security guards in Los Angeles just became the newest members of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials...
May 2007 Archives
May 21, 2007
Can you hear us now?
In a survey of 800 non-supervisory workers conducted for Change to Win by Lake Research Partners in March, 68%...
"What We Require Is No Fear"
The L.A. Times has a great story today about how local unions are helping gang members move from the world...
May 15, 2007
Gesundheit!
Bob Herbert's column in the New York Times today covers the new effort to ensure that all full-time workers are...
May 8, 2007
The $8,812 Missing from Your Wallet
Profits for Fortune 500 companies rose 29 percent in 2006 to $785 billion, the highest in half a century. Median...
May 7, 2007
This will knock the wind out of you
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill in the State Assembly to ban the use of diacetyl, a chemical used in artificial...
"I see," said the blind man
Pro-free trade economist Alan S. Blinder sounded the alarm in the Washington Post today on an unlikely topic: the...
May 3, 2007
Cause, Meet Effect
I'm sure we'll hear Circuit City executives soon enough arguing that this had absolutely nothing to do with this: Circuit...
May 2, 2007
Help to Air Some Dirty Laundry
No corporation should cut corners on worker safety. Cintas Corp. did just that and it may have cost a...