Labor

Extended federal unemployment benefits are being phased out for almost 80,000 jobless workers in South Carolina despite the state’s high 9.3 percent jobless rate. About 6,500 people will lose …

“Parody is one of the few weapons that labor people are still allowed to use,” Madison-based labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki recently told me. But members of Wisconsin Gov. Scott …

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We host a debate on Big Labor’s endorsement of President Obama’s re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a …

We host a debate on Big Labor’s endorsement of President Obama’s re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a …

Translated Wednesday 14 March 2012, by Henry Crapo (who is a member of Truthout's Board of Advisors) and reviewed by Isabelle Métral. "We are going to create a …

Industrial robots assemble a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo: Fabrizio Costantini / The New York Times) …

As ThinkProgress previously reported, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed seventeen petitions to break Senate Republican filibusters on as many judges earlier this week. Initially, McConnell reacted to …

The Goldman Sachs Building and the Empire State Building. (Photo: Derek D / Flickr) Wall Street traders come and go all the time, but few have quit …

Coming as it did in time for International Women’s Day, the decision of legislators in Virginia, to require women seeking an abortion to undergo a vaginal probe and see …