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Unions Come to Smithfield
On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They'd just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history.
December 17, 2008 | By David Bacon | web only

Black and Brown Together
In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state's growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state's reactionary politics.
February 25, 2008 | By David Bacon

Mexican Miners' Strike for Life
Copper miners in Mexico face down powerful corporations, company-backed unions, and government corruption to secure basic health, safety, and benefits for workers.
October 1, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

No Justice with No-Match Rule
A Bush administration proposal would have resulted in mass firings of workers just in time for Christmas. But an effort by the labor and immigration movements has led courts to intervene and halt the plan -- for now.
September 10, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Time for a More Radical Immigrant-Rights Movement
Congress's failure to pass immigration reform legislation is being used to crack down on undocumented immigrants in several states.
July 24, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Iraqi Union Leaders Call for an End to the Occupation
TAP talks to Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Workers Union of Iraq.
July 6, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Iraqi Oil: A Benchmark or a Giveaway?
Why Iraqi oil workers oppose the much- vaunted oil law. PLUS: TAP talks to Iraqi union leaders, and an accompanying photo essay.
July 6, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Trading on Migrant Labor
Why we won't be able to enact true immigration reforms until we re-examine our trade policies.
June 11, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Feds Crack Down on Immigrant Labor Organizers
Recent immigration raids in North Carolina weren't just about deporting undocumented workers.
May 11, 2007 | By David Bacon | web only

Murder and Migration
A U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and their lives.
December 17, 2006 | By David Bacon

Justice Deported
Tuesday's immigration raids on meatpacking plants weren't about curbing identity theft, they were about union-busting.
December 14, 2006 | By David Bacon | web only

And the Winner Is ...
Immigration reform on the killing floor.
October 23, 2005 | By David Bacon

Who Murdered Gilberto Soto?
An international organizer was murdered in El Salvador late last year. His work was on one of labor's great struggles.
January 4, 2005 | By David Bacon | web only

Strike Force
Southern California's grocery strike couldn't change the anti-union culture. San Francisco's hotel strike can.
October 22, 2004 | By David Bacon | web only

The Wages of Death
Why immigrant workers need a better contract with America
June 30, 2003 | By David Bacon

A Charged Atmosphere
Mexican unions block Fox's campaign to privatize electricity.
February 1, 2003 | By David Bacon

In the Name of National Security
Bush declares war on unions.
October 20, 2002 | By David Bacon

Shore Bet?
West Coast shipping shuts down, but the longshoremen stand their ground
October 2, 2002 | By David Bacon | web only

The Kill-Floor Rebellion
An alliance of a union and a community group may have found the way to reorganize the meatpacking industry -- and the Latino immigrant workers in small-town America.
June 30, 2002 | By David Bacon

The Coca-Cola Killings:
Is Plan Colombia funding a bloodbath of union activists?
January 28, 2002 | By David Bacon

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