For your reading enjoyment, some recent, and recently found, articles about unions, public services and workplace issues in American life:
- "Snow doesn't plow itself. Fires don't put themselves out. Police cars don't show up, unmanned, when danger arises," by the editorial board of STLtoday.com
- Public pensions were shortchanged in the 1990s, by Cynthia Howard with SEIU Local 521
- JobsOhio passed the Ohio House of Representatives on strict party-line vote, by Brian Hester at Plunderbund
- Of pensions and piggybanks: the challenges of ensuring a secure retirement, by Ellen Dannin at truthout
- Welfare reform exposed and poor families facing more threats, by Chuck Sheketoff at Blue Oregon
- Indiana: Theyre going for the jugular of the teachers' unions, by daveinchi at DailyKos
- The healthcare news blackout, by Laura Clawson at Main Street
- Life at the top: endless obscene bonuses for execs, everyone else getting shafted, by Sam Pizzigati at Alternet
- Banker pay is pretty good - the price of destroying the economy, by dakine01 at FireDogLake
- Out of commission - what you weren't told about the financial crisis, by Numerian at The Agonist
- Democracy vs. plutocracy: public transportation, by Dave Johnson at OurFuture
- "Vilifying public-sector employees is a bad strategy," by Brian Dickerson at the Detroit Free Press
- "Michigan public employees would make more in private sector jobs ...," by Peter Luke, MLive.com
- Push to replace Virginia pensions with 401(k)-like plans dies, by Vivian Page at All Politics Is Local
