Labor

July 10, 2013 - The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a trade agreement written with help from the likes of Walmart and Halliburton -- would enhance corporations' power to sue governments over laws they don't like, increase pressure for fracking, and make job-killers like NAFTA look puny. Congress will soon debate whether to fast-track it.

July 3, 2013 - Wal-Mart is disciplining and firing employees who are demanding improved working conditions -- a sign the Arkansas-based retail giant is worried about historic job actions spreading through its U.S. operations.

June 10, 2013 - Taxpayers help support companies that are hostile to worker organizing through economic development subsidies and also through social safety net programs such as Medicaid and food stamps.

May 22, 2013 - While fighting a union at its plant in Canton, Miss., Nissan makes a big gift to the Evers Institute -- perhaps forgetting that civil rights martyr Medgar Evers was a big union supporter.

April 12, 2013 - Pipeliners Local 798 is protesting Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan's decision to award a contract to non-union Loutex for construction of a gas pipeline in south Mississippi.

April 1, 2013 - Cheap labor, regressive taxes, federal dependency: Is the South's economic approach really an example for the nation?

March 21, 2013 - Multiemployer health care plans bargained by unions should have been a model for U.S. health care reform, but the Affordable Care Act tilts the playing field against them.