Category: Labor

What does democracy look like? Does it look like teachers, police, firefighters, librarians, nurses, the people who remove snow and trash, and social workers who have peacefully and in large numbers turned out to support the right of working and middle class people to participate in unions and in the collective bargaining process?

Rally in Support of Wisconsin Workers and Collective Bargaining Rights! This week, the OB Rag has been helping our readers…

By Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber/ Journal Sentinel Online (Milwaukee, WI) /  Feb. 18, 2011 Madison — With Senate…

7:55 pm PST: We will be signing off now as Ed Shultz – who deserves a lot of props for…

To see the most recent updates go HERE NOON PST: Demonstrators are now organizing to shut down WI Capital by…

Recently elected Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker has proposed a bill that would eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for most public workers and slash their pay and benefits.

Walker has also notified the state’s National Guard to be on alert for actions taken by unsatisfied state, county and municipal employees.

There has been a lot of scary talk in the mainstream media and from politicians regarding Social Security, and it’s…

A reader wrote us: “Please don’t let them rename any of our San Diego structures for Ronald Reagan- B actor, D president, F on human rights.”

(See this article – inside link.) Make this simple call TODAY 2/8/11 and make your voice heard!

by Lila Shapiro / HuffingtonPost / Originally published Feb. 4, 2011 Over the last three years, nearly 5 million U.S….

Channel 10News has uncovered a scandal involving millions of dollars in street repairs with the City of San Diego, and…

by Erica Holloway / San Diego Rostra / February 4, 2011

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Happy Dutch Day? Nope, most Americans say they’d rather work.

More than 60 percent of Americans reject the idea of denoting 40th President Ronald Reagan’s birthday, February 6, as a federal public holiday.