Co-published by International Business Times Darrell Issa, like the voters in his district, was a man under pressure. He put his finger in the air to test...
My mother and aunt were two of the girls of summer, recruited by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to play pro baseball during World War...
Toni Monique is an in-home caregiver who talks like a political philosopher when she is not taking care of her sister, Tonya Ginn, in Buena Park....
With good union training, wages and benefits, Cathy Nichols, a single mother, was able to provide for herself and her son without fear of impoverishment or...
Some reviewers have criticized the movie as another in a long line of “White Savior” films that feature a white protagonist who “leads” African Americans to...
I met Brian Smith and his grandmother Jean on a Sunday morning in South Los Angeles. Brian was a recent graduate of the International Brotherhood of...
I have been working at the Wilshire Grand Center construction project for a year and a half as a filmmaker trying to capture the daily effort...
I turned off onto a long dirt road about 15 miles outside of Montevideo, Uruguay and drove towards a wooden guard shack that stood across from...
Sebastian Alonzo graduated into “journeyman” status a couple of Fridays ago at the Iron Workers union hall in Norwalk. The 26-year old, who struggled to make...
Ron Miller, the head of the Los Angeles Building Trades Council, says that it is a “ritual” for trades workers to drive around Los Angeles surveying...
…mill hands, farm hands, factory hands…hands….hands…hands… — Eugene Debs Ironworker Devonte Merrifield makes sure he takes care of his hands. He jokingly points out that the...
Several years ago I produced a documentary film about young men who had been in gangs and in prison, men who had had their lives turned...
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Somerset Waters has the passion of a convert. You can hear it in his voice when he outlines why he set up the only worker-owned cooperative...
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Last week Chicago Bulls basketball star Derrick Rose wore a T-shirt in warm-ups that read “I Can’t Breathe,” protesting the non-indictment of a New York police...
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. — W.B. Yeats Artist Eric Drooker’s drawing of an iron worker sitting astride a...
Dino Degrassi and Jason Campbell engage in dialogues for a living. They also put the electrical wiring into some of Los Angeles’ largest and most recognizable...
There is a long tradition in the United States, and perhaps most of the world, of binary thinking when it comes to work.