Labor

Sound familiar? It is an old and cruel tactic in any company town. Reduce wages and benefits to subsistence level. Break unions. Gut social assistance programs. Buy and sell …

Howard Zinn: As the economic situation of the universities becomes more precarious and faculties shrink, it becomes easier to get rid of undesirables, whether political dissidents or just troublesome …

This episode provides an update on the widening LIBOR scandal and the fine Wells Fargo received for overcharging African-American and Hispanic families on their mortgages. The segment ends with …

Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years

Bread and roses. It was the battle cry of the thousands of striking women and their supporters who marched through the streets of Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, in the …

Moyers and Winship: You wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff.

Does the industry's ongoing land grab clash with the fundamental tenets of the Amish population?

In today's On the News segment: According to a new study by the Brookings Institute u2013 only a quarter of Americans can get to work in less than 90 …

Few in the U.S. know about this superhighway, or about the dozens of training missions and joint military exercises being carried out in nations that most Americans couldnu2019t locate …

The Knox decision is just the latest attack in the ongoing battle against labor. And like the fight in Wisconsin and other states, it focuses on public sector unions …