Lindsay Beyerstein
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Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op
By Lindsay Beyerstein Big news from last week largely overlooked by the mainstream media: The United Steelworkers will… more
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Landmark Nurses Union Deal Averts Swine Flu Strike
By Lindsay Beyerstein Late Friday, The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) reached an historic agreement with… more
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DC Dispatch: Progressive Ideas in Air at ‘Making it America’ Meeting
WASHINGTON—Labor leaders, business organizations, public officials and citizen groups have gathered here today to discuss progressive solutions for… more
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Nevada: A Good Place to be a Bad Boss
By Lindsay Beyerstein Nevada is a good place to be a bad boss. According to a new report,… more
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McCain Slaps Hold on Crucial Pro-Labor NLRB Nominee
By Lindsay Beyerstein The associate general counsel of SEIU and the AFL-CIO is inching his way toward a… more
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GOP House Candidate Would Co-Sponsor EFCA With Card Check
As a New York State Assemblywoman, DeDe Scozzafava established herself as a union-friendly Republican. As the GOP candidate… more
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Outsourcing Bites Back: Hidden Cost of Military Contractors Balloons
By Lindsay Beyerstein The Department of Labor and Congress are grappling with a rapidly growing and hidden cost… more
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NY-23: Special Election Divides the House of Labor
By Lindsay Beyerstein Organized labor is split over the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. The… more
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Transport Workers Take Fight to Bloomberg
Transport Workers Union Local 100 is making an unusual foray into electoral politics with its bare-knuckle campaign against… more
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Trades Union Council Steps on High Heels
By Lindsay Beyerstein Waitresses, airline attendants, sales people and bank employees in the UK and abroad are routinely… more
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Honduran Labor Organizer Dead After Tear Gas Attack
By Lindsay Beyerstein The tense standoff in Honduras has entered its second week. The latest phase of the… more
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Will Obama’s OSHA Nominee be the Right’s Next Smear Victim?
Industry-funded front groups are preparing to make a stink about Obama's nominee to head the Occupational Safety and… more
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An Obama Quid Pro Quo for Labor’s Support?
"So long as you stand by the public option, we will stand with you," new AFL-CIO President Richard… more
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Obama Red-Baiting is the New Black
On Saturday, CNN broadcast footage of "Tea Party" protesters in Washington D.C. "Demonstrators say that Obama is socialist,"… more
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Why Not Cover Undocumented Migrants?
Last night, President Obama outlined his vision for healthcare reform before a special joint session of Congress. When… more
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AFL-CIO Won’t Budge on Healthcare Reform ‘Absolute Musts’
Organized labor backed President Obama when he was campaigning for election with the promise of a public health… more
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UFCW Squares Off Against Whole Foods
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey reignited an old feud with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) with… more
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Labor Loses Its Champion: Ted Kennedy (1936-2009)
—"Working people aren’t getting their fair share of our economic growth. Their hard work is producing skyrocketing corporate… more
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Bloomberg Was for Union Raise Before He Was Against it
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was shocked, shocked earlier this month to learn that a state mediation board… more
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Taiwanese Workers Battle AIG Over $437M Pension Fund
Insurance agents at Nan Shan Life of Taiwan scored a preliminary victory in their battle to retain control… more
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Strike Stops Chinese Steel Mill Privatization
Steel workers in China achieved a victory yesterday when the government of Henan Province … more
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Netroots Nation: Bloggers Tour Modern Steel Mill
About two dozen progressive bloggers got a rare inside look at a modern steel mill in Braddock, PA,… more
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Teabaggers Scapegoat SEIU for MO Town Hall Scuffle
Across the country, well-funded right wing activists are turning town hall meetings into battlegrounds in an attempt to… more
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South Korean Strikers Withstand Paratrooper Assault
The South Korean police sent paratroopers in helicopters to roust strikers occupying an auto plant in Pyeongtaek yesterday.… more
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Strike Snapshot: Workers United Local 1426
If you’ve ever bought a shrink-wrapped Tyson chicken, you’re probably familiar with the work of Workers United Local… more
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Union 101: Why Unions Matter and How They Work
The entire labor movement is based on one simple idea. It’s so simple that maybe we don’t spell… more
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In Solidarity, Labor Steps Up Pressure on Honduran Junta
Tomorrow marks the one-month anniversary of when soldiers raided the home of Mel Zelaya, the democratically elected president… more
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Welcome to Union 101
A lot of progressives support unions with only the vaguest understanding of how these crucial institutions actually work.… more
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The Shipping News: UPS-FedEx Battle Heats up on Captiol Hill
FedEx and United Parcel Service are locked in a bitter struggle over the right of FedEx’s non-airline employees… more
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Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Hangs in the Balance
Every day, countless New Yorkers head off to work entrusting their children, their aging loved ones, and their… more
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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner
The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.