Folks, Im in DC on a “labor reporter vacation” and after popular request from many folks in the labor movement, we’ve decided to throw a happy hour at Marx Cafe in Mt Pleasant tonite. We will be raising money to cover the growing strike threat at General Motors. Come

Help Us Reach Our Monthly Goal $943 / $1,000 Donate Here! Folks, This week, the FBI raided the home of UAW President Gary Jones as part of growing corruption probe into the union. The ongoing corruption probe has already seen 4 top UAW officials convicted on charges of accepting bribes

This week, scores of employers throughout the U.S. received “no-match letters” from the Social Security Administration, informing them that workers employed by them have invalid Social Security numbers and may be undocumented immigrants. “People were just so afraid to leave the house that they didn’t go to work,

Earlier this month, a record-breaking ICE raid detained over 600 immigrant workers at several meatpacking plants in Mississippi. Quickly, images of small children stranded at school, after learning that their parents’ detention by immigration authorities, began appearing on TV. “I need my dad,” one 11-year-old girl Magdalena cried in a