Economy
September 8, 2010 -
The brother of the former Inspector General of Colombia has been arrested in connection with the murder of two union activists working for Drummond, a multinational coal company based in Birmingham, Ala.
September 6, 2010 -
Date of the first Labor Day celebration in the United States: 9/5/1882
September 2, 2010 -
When Glenn Beck decided to hold his "Restoring H
August 24, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Yesterday, independent paymaster Kenneth Feinberg took the reins from BP in managing damage claims from the Gulf oil spill. He has promised to make sweeping improvements in BP's system, which has been criticized by applicants as slow, bureaucratic and lacking in transparency. Our checklist of the fixes that Feinberg has promised describes the changes claimants can expect as Feinberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility
August 23, 2010 -
By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as