The Teamsters and other unions have helped build the middle class by negotiating for fair wages. But the corporate class and its allies ar...

Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in a narrow decision that home health care workers reimbused by the state cannot be charged for ...

Trade The fight to save an industry and middle class jobs from imports   Cleveland Plain Dealer   ...The United States is losing middle cla...

(NOTE: The following is a cross post from Brian's Blog , written by Brian Aldes, secretary-treasurer of Teamster Local 320 in Minnesota)...

Austerity Fails: European Nations See Debt Grow Despite Deep Spending Cuts   ThinkProgres  ...Since the onset of the financial crisis, E...

This new mom brought her 2-week-old baby to defend her rights. Small groups of Teamsters and town employees in a small New Hampshire tow...

Scranton, Pa., firefighters and police officers are back to full pay after their wages were cut to minimum wage during the last pay period...

Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas  Washington Post   ...During the nearly 15 years that Romney was activ...

When libertarianism fails   Salon   ...Chinatown buses revolutionized urban transit but had awful safety records, proving not every ingeniou...

Clueless It's the housing bust -- not government workers. We knew that all along, actually. But a new report backs us up. The U...

24 Hours Until Wisconsin Recall Elections: All Hands On Deck!    Venice for Change   "...predictions of victory at this point are beyon...

Union contracts will come to an end on Wednesday   Wisconsin State Journal   ...Tens of thousands of teachers and government workers will be...

John Nichols: Walker’s pay-to-play state budget   The Cap Times   ...Walker’s budget, the most fiscally and economically irresponsible in Wi...

Budget bill gives Walker more power over Medicaid programs   Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel   ...Advocates fear effect on programs for about 1 m...

Scott Walker Quietly Consolidating Power In Wisconsin   Huffington Post   ..."This is the most massive turn toward privatization of pub...

Gov. Walker Counting 125 Jobs Created by Doyle Administration   WTAQ.com   ...Walker ...(is) reportedly counting 125 jobs his predecessor an...

Can Dems take back Wisconsin state senate?   Washington Post   ...for the first time, it’s fair to say that the possibility, as improbable a...

We're following the Wisconsin rally to defeat Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to take an ax to the state's middle class. Here's...

\ Ohio's new Gov. John Kasich gave a speech to the Toledo Rotary Club on Feb. 7. "I'm not going to put Ohio further into the...

Memphis sanitation workers strike, 1968 There is a war on the middle class, and the middle class is losing. If you had any doubts about t...