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Can the Labor Movement Live With Police Unions?
Hamilton Nolan · 04/11/16 11:30AMAmerica's Most Biting Editorial Cartoonist Is This 10-Year-Old From Flint
Andy Cush · 03/17/16 12:00PMShould It Be Easy for Wall Streeters to Take Government Jobs?
Hamilton Nolan · 01/21/16 10:38AMAFL-CIO Tells Non-Union Store 'Unionmade' to Stop With the 'Unionmade' Crap
Hamilton Nolan · 11/30/12 01:15PMEarlier this month we told you about Unionmade, the upscale San Francisco menswear store that sells expensive clothes that are not, in fact, union made. The cherry on top of that particular style-over-substance outrage was the fact that Unionmade's logo bears a suspicious resemblance to the logo of the AFL-CIO. And now, the AFL-CIO's lawyers have sent them an angry letter demanding they change their name and logo.
Unions Need (Much) Better Ads
Hamilton Nolan · 01/17/12 12:53PMIs Big Labor Done with the Democratic Party?
Jim Newell · 08/25/11 11:56AMThe relationship between "Big Labor," especially the AFL-CIO, and the Democratic party over the last few years has been painfully one-sided. Unions raise large sums of cash for Democrats in federal elections, help them whip up support for major votes, and get nothing in return. Is labor finally ready to reconsider this terrible deal? Perhaps!
Assault on Unions Comes to... Massachusetts?
Jim Newell · 04/28/11 12:59PMWisconsin's Plan to Sic the National Guard on Unions
Jim Newell · 02/15/11 05:13PMWisconsin's new Republican governor, Scott Walker, wants to get his austerity budget rammed through the state's new Republican legislature, and he just supposedly doesn't have the time to deal with public employee unions. So he's introduced a proposal to eliminate workers' collective bargaining rights for wages, pensions, and other benefits while sharply raising their required contributions. And if these employees respond by striking? The proposal allows allows state authorities to fire workers who "participate in an organized action to stop or slow work" or who "are absent for three days without approval of the employer."