The last head of the YJS was the head of the state news agency SABA and was a total tool. The regime’s choice for this term is the vice at al Thawra, and there is a lot of contention about the regime’s strong arming the union to select and “elect” its candidate. (See Almotama...

During the oral argument before the California Supreme Court, on the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 , there was one brief shining moment of agreement. Justice Ming Chin asked whether it might not be best if the state got out of the marriage business entirely and just issued civil union permits—...

Why is it that whenever there is a crisis working class people not only have to pay to bail out the rich people, but they must also take the pay cuts while the people who caused the problems get bonuses? This is no more clear then with the case of Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. This Union Pilot...

Steve Benen writes: As expected, the Employee Free Choice Act, a measure intended to make it easier for American workers to form unions, was introduced on the Hill today. The measure is often known as "card check," because it would give workers the right to form a union when a majority of ...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Obama Lifts Stem Cell Research Ban President Barack Obama has overturned a ban on federal funding for ...

in In These Times: ...Making your marriage sacred should be between you and your goddy thing. Making your union legal, on the other hand, should be between you and state-guaranteed legal and human rights. And it should be available to any two people, gay or straight, in whatever configuration: Mothe...

While the other major players - GM and Chrysler - went to Congress bellowing for taxpayers to save their sorry butts, Ford rejected a government bail-out and went to its union for the money. And it got the givebacks it wanted. Unionized workers at Ford Motor Co. have approved contract changes ...

Photo Credit: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images (CNN) — In his first television interview since leaving the vice president’s mansion, Dick Cheney will be interviewed live this Sunday on State of the Union with John King. In his few statements since leaving office, the former vice president has been cr...

I tend not to write too much about Twitter these days. God knows enough gets written about it elsewhere. But we had such a great experience with Twitter at Hacking Education on Friday that I feel compelled to share it with everyone. Hacking Education was what we call a "Union Square Sessions" event....

Microsoft escaped with a rap on the knuckles from their anti-trust woes with the United States Justice Department. They are not faring nearly so well with European authorities. Microsoft recently lost a long and hard-fought battle with European antitrust authorities over their mandatory inclusion of...