LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More

NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 9, 2011 at 01:41 PM

The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last... More

USA Today’s Ham-fisted Public Workers Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2011 at 05:47 PM

USA Today runs a poor story this morning that says its analysis finds that government workers make more in total... More

WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story

And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2011 at 09:45 PM

The Wall Street Journal's page-one story yesteday on the union battle in Wisconsin erred on a few points, all of... More

Audit Notes: A Mirror For Scott Walker, SPJ Outraged at Blogger, Foreclosures

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 23, 2011 at 08:07 PM

Steven Pearlstein goes into his columnists' bag of tricks to show how crazy Governor Scott Walker's agenda would be if... More

Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM

Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 07:37 PM

Does Rupert Murdoch interfere with his news outlets? Does a bear, well, you know... The Los Angeles Times has an... More

Audit Notes: Reproducibility, Daily Show, Boeing Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 2, 2011 at 07:55 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story today reporting on how most peer-reviewed medical studies can't be... More

Audit Notes: Watchdog Blogging, Union Power, Stadium Economics

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2011 at 07:46 PM

The blog Gin and Tacos makes a fantastic catch on Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's effort to take away the... More

Australian Media CEO’s Embarrassing Memo Mistake

Confirming eighty-two firings with “track changes” in place

By Joel Meares   May 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM

What could be more embarrassing to a reporter than the incident from a couple of months ago when The Washington... More

Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM

The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More

PolitiFact Shows A Fox Host Is Wrong, But Hedges Its Verdict (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM

For an organization whose reason for being is to judge what's a fact and what's not, PolitiFact sure has a... More

ProPublica Shines a Light on Secret Gerrymandering Money

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 23, 2011 at 01:48 PM

Every ten years, politicians get together in statehouses and redraw congressional districts to squeeze their opponents and entrench themselves in... More

Steve Brill’s Blinkered View of Education

By Felix Salmon   Aug 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM

If you don’t have the time or inclination to read Steve Brill’s book on education reform, then his bombastic op-ed... More

The WSJ Overreaches On Wisconsin Democrats Story

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2011 at 02:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal went A1 with a big scoop this morning that "Democrats to End Union Standoff" in Wisconsin.... More

The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 17, 2011 at 01:35 PM

The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid... More

The NYT’s Incomplete Article on State Pension Plans

By Felix Salmon   Mar 1, 2011 at 03:13 PM

Steven Greenhouse has a long article in today's NYT about an attempt by the states to deal with their "strained"... More

Walmart’s Unions

They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM

It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... More