I received word today that CtW Connect has been credentialed to cover the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. Woo hoo! That means we'll be on the scene reporting live when the American Dream Candidate officially takes up...
A week ago, I wrote about how janitors at high-tech companies across Silicon Valley were walking out on strike to protest the low wages they're paid. Well, the strike is over and the janitors have won some big improvements:...
Apparently even though they felt their financial situation was so dire they had to fire their 3,400 most productive workers to cut costs, management at Circuit City had enough money lying around to hire a consulting company to punch...
CtW Executive Director Greg Tarpinian calls out the corporate scam of "misclassification" -- and challenges Congress to stop it -- today on The Hill's Congress Blog: Workers who are misclassified are cheated out of their basic rights to minimum wage...
Picture by Flickr user thp365 Janitors who work in the San Francisco Bay Area at some of the world's best-known technology companies, including Cisco, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, and Oracle, walked out on strike Tuesday to protest the low wages...
Change to Win members have been working hard to help The American Dream Candidate, Senator Barack Obama, win a victory in today's Oregon primary. Here's a sample of what they've been doing: Hundreds of Change to Win members and...
... "U" for "Unfair", that is. The story begins on May 9, when organizers from the United Farm Workers were startled by the situation they found at the cherry orchards of Kyle Mathison Orchards Inc. in Shafter, California: Farm...
Imagine if every single person in the city of Houston, Texas had to endure a cruddy job with low pay, inadequate benefits and no voice at work. Now hold that thought in your mind as you consider that this...
Paramilitary death squads in Colombia have systematically assassinated thousands of workers over the past twenty years for attempting to organize unions. But who is the real victim in this union-busting bloodbath? According to statements made on a recent installment of...
Good think-piece in today's Politico by former Democratic House leader Martin Frost on how working people's votes will be key in this year's election: Political relevance often varies from election to election. Largely unnoticed in the 2008 campaign so far...
Oh, Circuit City. What will we do when we don't have you to kick around anymore? If you've been following CtW Connect since the beginning, you'll remember how a little more than a year ago they made the stunningly...
I had the good fortune to attend the "A Better Deal Conference" last Friday, which brought together young progressive leaders from across the country to talk about how we can make America a better place for young people and...
The results are in from yesterday's Democratic primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, and it's hard to see how they could be read as anything but a resounding victory for the American Dream Candidate -- Senator Barack Obama. In...
We’ve written extensively in this space on the problem of combustible dust explosions. There’s been some activity on this front in the last few days, so an update is probably in order. First, the good news — on Wednesday,...
