(for Sonia Nieto) In Brooklyn, the mice were crazy with courage, bony gray pickpockets snatching crumbs from plates at the table. The roaches panicked in spirals...
Yesterday, some 22,000 surgical and X-ray technicians, custodians, servers, cooks and other workers at nine University of California campuses and all of U.C.’s medical centers began a one-day...
In a remarkable act of courage and solidarity with the next generation, last week Boeing workers in Seattle soundly rejected corporate extortion, by voting down a...
Walmart just reported shrinking sales for a third straight quarter. What’s going on? Explained William S. Simon, the CEO of Walmart, referring to the company’s customers, “their...
(Randy Shaw is the editor of BeyondChron and author of The Activist’s Handbook, Second Edition. This post first appeared November 14 on BeyondChron and is republished...
Twenty-seven port truck drivers walked into the Rancho Dominguez offices of Total Transportation Services, Inc. (TTSI) Thursday and presented their employer with a petition. Their demand...
At the National Employment Law Project (NELP), where we advocate for low-wage and unemployed workers, some of our most inspiring moments have come from being involved...
On Sunday, November 3, the Los Angeles Times ran a 429-word story, “Wal-Mart kicks off Christmas way early, helping to kill Black Friday,” on the retail...
RICHMOND, Calif. – In a run-down shopping center in the heart of this San Francisco Bay Area community, about a half dozen activists are plotting to...
In addition to serving as Senior Fellow for Health Care for the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network, I am the Executive Director for my campus’ Roosevelt...
(Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor of School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. His post first appeared on The Nation‘s website...
How will the 2016 election be framed? What will be America’s choice? If the coverage of last week’s two big winners offers a guide, the choice...
“Thank you for your service.” It’s a line we hear and say a lot around Veteran’s Day, especially in California, home to 1.8 million veterans, more...
More than any other public policy issue, health care is very personal. So it is not surprising that personal stories are a central battleground for the...
I have been practicing the first two lines of a poem by Chung Ling: “I make fast my white barge to the bank of the brimming...
During NPR’s Morning Edition, broadcast on Southern California’s public radio station KCRW, you’ll hear an underwriter spot for “Labor Lawyers” Fisher & Phillips. Turns out Fisher...
Randy Shaw’s The Activist’s Handbook is a book with legs. First published in the early 1990s, it has now been updated as a guide to “winning...
So how to explain this paradox? As of November 1 more than 47 million Americans have lost some or all of their food stamp benefits. House...
Seven years ago, the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports came together with one simple goal: to fix the broken port trucking system. For too long,...
There are good reasons why President Obama’s leading message on health care during the 2008 campaign, often repeated since, was “if you like your health insurance,...