Public Workers

Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin

March 15, 2011 By Scott Marshall

March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.

Your mailman talks about St. Patrick’s Day and workers who vote Republican

March 11, 2011 By John Dick

St. Patrick's Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The key to our dismal conditions then was this: we had no collective bargaining rights.

Fight for public workers is about freedom

March 9, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

The rights of public workers and the services they provide is a part of the bigger fight for all workers to organize and win decent wages, working conditions, benefits and strong communities.

Public workers are US

March 8, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

Under the guise of "fiscal responsibility" the tea party GOP extreme right at both the federal and state level is wielding a two-edged sword aimed at the heart of the black and Latino community's economic life.

Bishops support collective bargaining

March 7, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Ohio's bishops are calling for their state's governor and legislature not to remove the right to collective bargaining for public workers, adding " the economy exists for the person, not the person for the economy."