Does Your Copy of Labor Notes Take Forever to Arrive?
Seriously, we’re as frustrated as you are—and so are postal workers.
Closures of mail processing plants have hit small newspapers hard. Take The Bullard Banner News in Texas. After the nearest USPS plant closed in June, the weekly paper’s route to local mailboxes now detours through a plant 120 miles away. One subscriber reported getting no paper for weeks—then three in a day.
Arab Labor Leaders Ask U.S. Workers to Oppose Bombing Syria
Alarmed at the AFL-CIO's official silence, an Iraqi oil union leader and others drafted their own resolution, addressed directly to U.S. workers.
A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
Defiant Walmart employees in Los Angeles and across the country flashed OUR Walmart's trademark hand signal. Photo: Slobodan Dimitrov.