Jane Slaughter

Organizers Worth Their Salt

Bosses hate a salt—a pro-union worker who’s taken a job with the intent to organize. Many who salt say there are advantages to organizing from inside the workplace.

Workers or 'Leaseholders'? D.C. Cabbies Ally with Teamsters

Taxi drivers in Washington, D.C., angry about rushed and expensive new regulations, have allied with the Teamsters union, despite their exclusion from labor law.

Auto Workers Try a New Angle at Volkswagen

The United Auto Workers, so long frustrated in their attempts to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., may have found a different way in: a works council like those in Germany.

Stealth Bill Would Allow Cuts to Current Pensions

If there was a bright side to the government shutdown, it’s that Congress has delayed taking up a little-publicized bill that would leave some pensioners high and dry.

Secret TPP Deal Would Void Democracy

Congress will soon debate whether to “fast-track” a trade deal that would make job-killers like NAFTA look puny. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would cover 40 percent of the world's economy.

Frozen, Furloughed and Sequestered: Federal Workers Fed Up

Update August 6, 2013: The Department of Defense reduced the number of furlough days for 650,000 civilian employees from 11 to six. AFGE President David Cox credited AFGE activists who had flooded the White House and congressional offices with stories of personal hardship and said that Pentagon officials had admitted the furloughs were unnecessary.

“Weekday frequent flyers”—that is, business travelers—must have felt drunk with power in April, when Congress rushed to fix the inconvenience caused by air traffic controller furloughs.

Charley Richardson, 1953-2013

Charley Richardson passed away on Saturday. What made him stand out among labor educators was his devotion to the workplace, his belief that the seat of workers’ power was their ability to control their conditions of work and to act together where it counted.

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