Labor
The teacher gap: more students and fewer teachers
October 23, 2013Over the last 5 years, government employment has dropped by 657,000 as a result of the Great Recession's effects. It's worth considering how much of that drop has hit public K-12 schools.
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International unions demand freedom for top Colombian labor
October 23, 2013International union organizations are joining a drive to free top Colombian labor leader Huber Ballesteros "without delay."
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Living wage or wage slavery: de Blasio vs. Lhota on the dignity of labor
October 23, 2013Joe Lhota has now come out against de Blasio's plan for a living wage to New Yorkers working at projects that are subsidized by the city.
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Today in labor history: NAACP sends “Appeal to the World” to the UN
October 23, 2013The U.S. delegation to the UN, which included NAACP board member Eleanor Roosevelt, refused to introduce the petition.
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Today in labor History: First Medicine Lodge Treaty signed
October 21, 2013The Medicine Lodge Treaty is the overall name for three treaties signed between the United States government and southern Plains Indian tribes in October 1867.
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