Ponca City, We love you writes "The number of labor with asthma has been rising for many years. About 1 in 10 parturition in the UK develop asthma, compared with about 1 in 25 in the 1960s. The reason for this isn't clear, use 'although' several grand unified theory have been put forward such as kee...

Opinion Journal: Big Labor's drive to eliminate secret ballots for union elections has united American business in opposition, so labor chiefs are putting on the brass knuckles: The new strategy is to threaten companies with government retaliation if they don't stop lobbying against turning U.S. lab...

Laid-off workers over 40, it turns out, aren’t just sitting back, accepting their laid-off fates and waiting for those Social Security checks to come in. No sir, they’re increasingly taking matters into their own hands . . . and suing, claiming age-discrimination. Click here for the WSJ ...

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...

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 ...

Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. [Hat tip: xMabaitx and SF Chronicle]...

"I was a hard-working cop. I never hurt anybody. I never kidnapped anybody. ... I never did any of this." ---Ex-NYPD officer Louis Eppolito told U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein while being sentenced to life in prison. It's been over a month and still no news from the Governmental Affairs Committe...

"Work? Work is my mother working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, and my father working in a restaurant all day every day," he said. What I have to do - going to campaign events, meeting people and shaking hands, talking issues with journalists, this is fun. — John Liu upon being told by Errol L...

Stephen Greenhouse (NY Times) has an article on the attempts to rejoin the AFL-CIO and the Change To Win unions. He puts the chance of success at 50-50: The presidents of 12 large unions have held talks since January, when......

Below is a partial translation of a post (RUS) on health care in Russia - a caustic “unsent letter” to the Russian president, written by LJ user sobe-panek on Feb. 22. The post has made it into the Top 30 at Yandex Blogs portal and was picked up by some Russian media. […] There is ...