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Recent Media Coverage

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Check out recent guest columnists on Point of View.         A Week in the Tobacco Fields By Baldemar Velásquez Founder and President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)         We Can't Afford Another Train Wreck By Bill Press Author, Train Wreck, and Host, 'The Bill Press Show'   The Big Squeeze By Steven Greenhouse Reporter, The New York Times   Unions and the Public Interest By David Brody Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis   Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans By John Schmitt, Senior Economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and Dean Baker, Co-Director of the CEPR   Unemployment Benefits Need to be Extended NOW By Christine Owens Executive Director, National Employment Law Project   Is Inequality Making Us Sick? By Larry Adelman Creator/Executive Producer, 'Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?'   The Recession and the Freedom to Organize By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research   Forty Years Since King: Labor Rights Are Human Rights By Michael Honey History Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma   Rx for Recession: An Economic Strategy that Works By Lawrence Mishel President, Economic Policy Institute   Race and Labor in America By Robert Zieger Professor of History, University of Florida   Right to Organize, Right to Strike By Julius Getman Professor, University of Texas   Level the Playing Field for Public Safety Employees By Paul Clark Professor, Penn State University   Why More Women Don’t Hold Office By Jennifer Lawless Political Science Professor, Brown University   We Must Close the Wealth Gap. We Must Vote By Allan Ornstein Professor of Education, St. John's University   Reflections on Hip Hop By Michael Eric Dyson University Professor, Georgetown University   'The Myth of the Greedy Founders' By Thom Hartmann Host, Air America Radio    'Diversity Is Our Strength' By UAW Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Bunn and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Nat LaCour   Real Flextime—Union Made By Netsy Firestein Executive Director, Labor Project for Working Families   What if John Edwards Worked at Wal-Mart? By Ellen Bravo Former Director, 9to5, National Association of Working Women   The Real Political Purpose of the ICE Raids By David Bacon Photojournalist and Trade Unionist     The Under 34, Underpaid Underdogs By Tamara Draut Director, Economic Opportunity Program at Demos     Economic Democracy Works By John August Executive Director, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions     Congress Should Reverse Recent Labor Board Decisions By Dmitri Iglitzin, Labor Law Attorney in Seattle, and Steven Hill, Political Reform Director at the New America Foundation     Needed: A New Wave of Energy for Justice By Joseph Lowery President Emeritus, SCLC   The Latino Vote By Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus Executive Director, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)   Investigate the NLRB By Andrew Kersten Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the Department of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay   The Economy Mattered Nov. 7 By Geoff Garin President, Peter D. Hart Research Associates   Labor Board Leaves Workers in Twilight Zone By Harley Shaiken Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Recruiting Nurses from Abroad Is Not the Answer to the U.S. Nursing Shortage By Paul Clark, James Stewart and Darlene Clark Faculty Members at Penn State University   Old Problems, New Solutions By Jared Bernstein Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute   Unions Built the Middle Class and Must Save It By Richard A. Levins Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota   U.S. Labor Law Is Broken By Mary Beth Maxwell Executive Director, American Rights at Work   No Red or Blue States, Working Family States By Brian Schweitzer Governor of Montana   Finding a Place for Immigrant Workers in Today’s Labor Movement [Spanish version] By Janice Fine Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University   Can You Afford to Retire? By Hedrick Smith FRONTLINE Correspondent   The Rollback of Immigrant Workers' Civil Rights By Ana Avendaño, Laywer in the AFL-CIO Office of the General Counsel, and Marielena Hincapié, Labor Lawyer with the National Immigration Law Center   Jobs: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t By Greg LeRoy Executive Director, Good Jobs First   The Global Class System By Jeff Faux Founder and Former President, Economic Policy Institute   Organizing Against the Odds By Immanuel Ness Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York   This MLK Day, Remember Katrina's Real Victims By Michael Eric Dyson Avalon Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania   American Workers Need to Bring About Change By Clyde Rucker Former Senior Customer Representative, Verizon Wireless   Current Labor Law Betrays Our Democratic Values By David Bonior Chairman, American Rights at Work   Tax Cuts for the Wealthy—The Wrong Priority By Joel Friedman, Senior Fellow, and John Springer, Senior Writer, CBPP   The Truth About Drug Companies By Marcia Angell, M.D.   Reclaiming Thomas Paine, Reviving Democracy and American Labor By Harvey J. Kaye Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay   Labor Rights Are Civil Rights By Julian Bond Chairman, NAACP   Hurricane Katrina: What Would FDR Do? By Thomas A. Kochan Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management   This Labor Day, Are You Afraid? By Robert Heustess Parts Assembler, Freightliner, Gastonia, N.C.   Don’t Gut Family and Medical Leave By Ellen Bravo Coordinator, Multi-State Working Families Consortium   What My Daddy Did By James C. Moore Author, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential   Find Labor’s Soul By Michael Kazin Professor, Georgetown University   America Needs to Remember Workers' Role By Studs Terkel Author, Working   Kill CAFTA By Greg Spotts Author, CAFTA and Free Trade: What Every American Should Know

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