Volume 73, Issue #2 | Summer 2013

The Senate is dysfunctional. That's not news to anyone following the long list of legislation never debated and agency, executive branch and judiciary nominations that are going nowhere.

In the 1930s, across the country and in every sector, workers took to the streets to end their poor working conditions, low wages and abusive labor practices. Some died fighting for their rights.

We can't let corporate America succeed in killing the National Labor Relations Board and workers' rights. Unions and allies are fighting back.

Clarence Adams is a 14-year employee of Cablevision. He's also a Marine and Iraq veteran, and a father. "Last January, 21 co-workers and I were illegally fired and locked out by Cablevision. Why were we fired? We took management at its word when it said there was an open door policy to talk about workplace issues. We wanted to talk about getting a fair contract. Cablevision decided that it didn't want to talk about anything and fired us."

View the workers' rights timeline.

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to know that there has been a real campaign underway for decades to eliminate workers' rights to join a union and bargain for better wages and conditions.