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  • Unions, Allies Warm Up for Election at 'One Nation' Rally
    Mischa Gaus & Jane Slaughter
    September 30
    Labor and Politics

    Are there more of us than there are of the Tea Party? The One Nation Working Together rally in Washington October 2 is the union movement’s answer to the Tea Party-Glenn Beck types, says Steve Kramer, vice president of a union that hopes to send 50,000 members on buses to D.C.

  • LA Teachers: Good Teaching Takes More than Bubble Sheets
    Mary Rose O'Leary
    September 16

    Hundreds turned out to protest the Los Angeles Times for the public flogging the Times has rendered to scores of dedicated LA teachers, rating individual teachers on a discredited “effectiveness” scale based on test scores.

  • Maximum Wage
    Tom Neilson
    October 1
    Song of the Month

    Tom Neilson continues his tireless rebellion against injustice and establishment misdeeds.

  • Bargain to Organize, Organize to Bargain
    Matt Luskin
    September 22
    Stewards Corner

    The labor movement has long debated its priority: organize new members or represent the ones we have? We've had to do both, or we could do neither. Our local has found that we grow because of the strength of current members.

  • Should Nonmajority Unions Have Right to Bargain?
    Judy Atkins, David Cohen
    September 14

    With any luck, unions that haven't shown a majority in an election could soon gain bargaining rights. Unions began as “members-only” in the '30s, and a return to that bottom-up organizing could be a boost.