Deregulation Comes in for a Hard Landing: FAA under Scrutiny as Safety Issues Mount

By Carl Finamore
One of 70-million travelers a year, I flew out of Chicago’s huge four-terminal O’Hare airport to San Francisco on April 9 in a United Airline B-767 aircraft. The large Boeing jet holds 244 passengers and was unexpectedly full.
Optimistically hoping for a first-class upgrade or at least an aisle, I had to settle for [...]

NAFTA on Steroids: The Security and Prosperity Partnership

by Paul Garver
Even as a growing number of citizens of the USA, Mexico and Canada are demanding the renegotiation of NAFTA, government and corporate elites are stealthily reshaping the agreement into a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) to promote greater economic and military integration of the continent. When the next SPP Summit involving the three [...]

Remaking Labor–From the Top-Down? Bottom-Up? or Both?

by Steve Early
Review of: Milkman, Ruth. L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. 244 pp.$24.95 (paper).
Moody, Kim. U.S. Labor In Trouble And Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above and the Promise of Revival from Below. New York, NY: Verso, 2007. 289 [...]

SEIU and Obama Labor muscle

Where is the labor-intellectual alliance?

Herman Benson has a piece worth discussing in the current issue of New Politics. (It’s not available on-line yet there, but you should subscribe. It can be found on-line on Benson’s blog.
Cheerleading is not enough. It’s time for those scholars, artists, and writers to take another look at what’s happening in [...]

Is NCLB dead? Should it be?

by Duane Campbell
Both major teachers’ unions, the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers have made changing or amending the No Child Left Behind act of 2001 as a top priority in this election year.
Each of the major Democratic Party candidates call for substantive change – and this debate will be an [...]

Choices for Black Labor

As we enter the 21st ststst century, Black labor is in disarray. Within the ranks of organized labor, the various institutions that have often spoken on its behalf have ossified. Black caucuses in various unions have stepped back from challenging and pushing the union leaderships and instead have in all too many cases degenerated into social clubs or step-ladders for individuals to get positions in the union structure. While there are greater numbers of Black staff and, in some cases, elected leaders, there is an emphasis on acceptability – to the leadership of organized labor – within the ranks of the movement, rather than an emphasis on challenge and struggle.