California’s working families are mobilized to beat back special election ballot measures proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and financed by his millionaire corporate friends that attack union members’ political freedom, teachers’ jobs and school funding.

Take e-action to protest the Bush agenda for the Gulf Coast, to support the demand to ratify the Kyoto Treaty, and to protest TimeWarner's exploitation of child labor.

Iraqis voters overwhelmingly favor troop withdrawal from their country. New report shows the Iraq war costs US taxpayers almost $6 billion per month. To pay for it, big business and Republican-dominated tax advisory panel plans to advise Bush to raise taxes on working families. Was the New York terror hoax a diversionary tactic?

For years, employers have been canceling benefit coverage and shifting more of the remaining costs to workers. Unions have been able to fight off this employer attack on benefits, but nonunion workers have been left with inadequate health care protections and no retirement security... The value of the benefits that union workers receive is double the value for nonunion workers.

The unions in the new Change to Win federation plan to spend at least $750 million on organizing during the next 12 months, their leaders said during the group’s founding convention in St. Louis on Sept. 27...The Change to Win federation will also use its power to enforce its member unions to work together on joint efforts, through coordinating committees, with one committee for each of 17 industrial sectors it identified.

The devastation caused by hurricane Katrina has led millions of Americans to open our hearts to the helpless victims of the Gulf Coast communities. Donations by the millions have poured in. Volunteers by the thousands have rushed to disaster sites to help with rescue work and reconstruction. And the unions and union members of our country have been among those who have given generously.

As the people of the Gulf Coast begin the long road to recovery after the worst natural disaster in American history, President Bush is choosing to use this tragedy to push his conservative political agenda on the region.

To enrich his corporate friends in the wake of the Katrina disaster, Bush elimnated rules protecting wages in the Gulf States. Send him a message about. Also, demand that farm workers in Washington be protected from exploitation.

In his first act after the storm, Bush issued an executive order taking wage protections away from construction workers who will rebuild the Gulf Coast. The Bush administration also is using the disaster to attack federal standards by lifting many affirmative action rules for reconstruction contracts and suspending regulations limiting the number of hours truckers can drive when transporting fuel.

As Republicans celebrate the anniversary of eight years in a row without a minimum wage increase this September, it is increasingly clear that the lowest paid workers in the US need a raise. The poverty and inequality exposed by the Katrina disaster proves this more than ever before. Because low wages are a primary cause of poverty, it is time to raise the federal minimum wage.

College student indebtedness grows as students find covering rising costs impossible. Fight Bush's decision to force down wages for Gulf Coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Express support for Korean hotel workers. Despite right-wing lies, the gender wage gap persists and costs women and their families hundreds of thousands of dollars.

John Roberts is testifying in a cool and calculating way, letting everyone in Washington know that he will play their game, the game that cynical Europeans identify with the "political class," meaning the functionaries from the right schools who staff the executive agencies and the inner councils of the major political parties.

The Bush administration's failure to respond rapidly and adequately to the catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina earned it much deserved criticism. But the administration did respond quickly to requests by its large donors and corporate backers to push on with its ultra-right agenda.

Workers helping workers. That is what the labor movement is all about. Because of President Bush's failed leadership and the inadequacy of the response by the agencies under his authority to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding in New Orleans and the damage in Mississippi and Alabama, working families have had to dig deep into their limited resources to come to the aid of the victims of the disaster.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) this week exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits. The exposure comes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as the oil industry blames environmental regulation for limiting the number of US refineries.

Hurricane Katrina has inflicted an immense and unspeakable tragedy on the people of the Gulf Coast. The situation grows worse by the hour. The Mayor of New Orleans estimates that thousands have died and as many as 100,000 may still be trapped in the flooded city. Without food or drinkable water, time is running out for these men, women and children.

As the 2006 election draws nearer, Congress is becoming the battleground for Bush administration policies. The President’s loyalists continue to support the war drive and privatization of Social Security, but more than a few are jumping ship. The shifts within Congress, and breaks in the Republican stronghold, provide an important opening to mobilize voters, blunt the attacks, and build support for bold pro-worker legislation.

On August 20th, 4,430 airline mechanics at Northwest Airlines went on strike. After several months of negotiations, it became obvious to the union that the company had no intention of budging from its initial offer and wanted to push the workers to walk out.

“There have been almost daily revelations that Roberts was a charter member of the Reagan-Bush legal policy team that attempted to dismantle the civil rights remedies,” including affirmative action, previous presidents backed, said Ralph Neas, executive director of People for the American Way.

America’s biggest retailer—with $10.3 billion in profits last year—has a shameful record of child labor violations, sex discrimination, low wages and lousy benefits...More than 30,000 Working Family e-Activists have pledged to buy back-to-school supplies somewhere other than Wal-Mart this year...