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Netflix to Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Add Films to On-Demand Service
Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers
The Music-Copyright Enforcers
After Drought, Hope for Shows Made for Web
Defining Prosperity Down
Economic Indicator: Even Cheaper Knockoffs
A vibrant and busy shipyard
Industries Find Surging Profits in Deeper Cuts
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
Gee, Officer Krupke, I Need Those Violins
New RNs find job market tight
India Expands Role as Drug Producer
Arne Duncan holds dialogue with AASL leaders | American Libraries Magazine
Editorial: China, the Sweatshop
Need a Job? Help Wanted at the N.Y. Philharmonic
Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage
Broadway Sees Benefits of Building Black Audience
A Crusader for Boldness as the Arts Face Deficits
Sticking to the Union
Big business's hypocritical country-club nonsense
Editorial: The Message From Arkansas
We'll Make You a Star (if the Web Agrees)
New York Libraries' Adult English Programs Face Cuts
Keeping teachers in the classroom
New Breed of Specialist Steps In for Family Doctor
5 Myths about who gets into college
Randi Weingarten: Public Schools Need a Bailout
'Glimmers of Hope' for Grads
On TV, a New Refuge for Stage Actors
Teachers Facing Weakest Market in Years
Why Obama, Duncan should have kept quiet about Rhode Island teachers
Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy
Advertising: TV Networks Go on a Pilot Buying Spree
Dropping of 'Law & Order' Leaves Hole in Economy
High-profile failures raise worry
A Stand for Science
Editorial: Saving the Teachers
Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones
Editorial: The New Haven Model
Editorial: Cleaning Up Medical Advice
They're Calling Almost Everyone's Tune
Mr. Broadway Storms Capitol Hill
The Labor Department Wakes Up
Weighty Dramas Flourish on Cable
Branding Comes Early in Filmmaking Process
No Child Left Behind flunks out
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say
Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu
Editorial: Records in Real Time
Bias Called Persistent Hurdle for Women in Sciences
SHPE - Spring 2010
China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S.
Campaign pushes for more roles for disabled actors
Bridge Over the Visa Moat for Musicians Trying to Enter the U.S.
Revenge of the Cable Guys
Ping: A Dream for Music, but Labels' Nightmare
Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets Up Battle
For Movie Stars, the Big Money Is Now Deferred
Scholar's School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate
Editorial: Music Inc. Gets Bigger
For Hollywood, Stand-Ins Play California’s Part
Editorial: A Bitter Guest Worker Story
IEEE-USA Quoted in National Journal
IEEE-USA Quoted in Computerworld Re: High-Tech Unemployment
Seattle Symphony resumes talks over expired contract; challenges remain
Cleveland Orchestra strike highlights crisis that DSO, other symphonies face
Annual Poll of Freshmen Shows Effect of Recession
Editorial: Policing Indecency
Strike in Cleveland Points to Classical Music Woes
Playwrights’ Nurturing Is the Focus of a Study
A Serious Proposal
Television Begins a Push Into the 3rd Dimension
Broadcasters Battling for Cable Fees
News Analysis: Next Up on Cable TV, Higher Bill for Consumers
Trying to Add Portability to Movie Files
Watching TV Together, Miles Apart
New Materials Tell Story of H-1B Visa Program
New Report : Employers ‘Gaming’ Guest Worker Programs
New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
In a Distressed Year, Hollywood Smiles
Comcast Introduces A Streaming TV Service
Music Business Heads Into Virtual World
Never Listen To Celine? Radio Meter Begs to Differ
Paramount Pictures to Start Online Service to Sell Movie Clips
College Dropouts Cite Low Money and High Stress
Editorial: Concerns about Comcast - NBC
Web-TV Divide is Back in Focus with NBC Sale
Editorial: Dangerous Work
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap
Learning His Body, Learning to Dance
Survey Finds Shift in the Makeup of Unions
Labor Today
Playing in Peoria
Bedtime? No, Curtain Time
Editorial: Freedom of the Press
Lack of Paid Sick Days May Worsen Flu Pandemic
Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor’s Next Line
A Few Star-Studded Hits Obscured Broadway’s Challenges
Making It Better
TV Stations Start Broadcasting to Mobile Gadgets
This Just In—I’ll Now Work My Own Prompter
Libraries and Readers Wade into Digital Lending
Still on the Job, but at Half the Pay
Op-Ed: The Uneducated American
Young Workers Need Honesty, Too
Editorial: Science and Lobbying at the F.D.A.
Recession Drives Women Back to the Work Force
Editorial: Freedom of the Press
Editorial: The Rights of Gay Employees
Women at Work: Women Still Make Less Than Men
Americans lost ground over past decade
Editorial: A Clear Responsibility
Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records
Rocco Landesman Goes All In for Arts in America
Turning Music Into Dollars at Sony/ATV
Broadway Banks on West End Pedigree
Independent Filmmakers Distribute on their Own
At Sinclair Community College, Focus is Jobs
New Endowment Chairman Sees Arts as Economic Engine
Arts Programs in Academia Are Forced to Nip Here, Adjust There
Editorial: A Champion for Workers’ Safety
Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy
Op-Ed: Radio-Free America
Sudden Finale
Television Fledgling Keeps It Real
Slipstream: The Music Streams that Soothe an Industry
Start-Up Plans to Make Journalism Pirates Pay Up
For New Leader of the Arts Endowment, Lessons > From a Shaky Past
Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane
Editorial: Randi's report card
Scientist Shortage? Maybe Not
Supreme Court Clears Way for Wider Use of DVR
Editorial: Insurance Company Schemes
Letter to the Editor: A Fair Reward to Radio Artists
Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater
National Endowment for the Arts Announces Highlights from 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts
Editorial: Pilots and Fatigue
Why LGBTs Should Care About Unions
AFTRA, AFM Call for ‘Fair Play for Air Play’
Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web
Unemployment LifeLine: Working America, AFL-CIO
Arts & the Economy
Discussion: How the Economy is Affecting the Arts Community
U.S. Media Companies Look from China to India
Editorial: Immigration and the Unions
Editorial: The Battle Over Student Lending
Editorial – Appreciations – Judith Krug
The Labor Movement's Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (April 2009)
Editorial: Immigration Reform and Hard Times
It’s Time to Overhaul H-1B Visas
Editorial: Miles to Go on E-Health Records
President Almeida's Testimony re. H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act of 2009
Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
Anderson County Library Board, Lynn Sutton and Mohamed Ismail named winners of 2008-2009 SirsiDynix – ALA-APA award [DPE Assistant to the President Pamela Wilson To Receive Special Certificate For Work on Living Wage Resolution]
In Innovation, U.S. Said to Be Losing Competitive Edge By STEVE LOHR
The Case for National Standards By Randi Weingarten
A Likely Auto Adviser Is Strong in Union Ways By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
The Future of Reading: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update By MOTOKO RICH
Op-Ed Columnist: Health Care Now
Time to put middle class front and center
Book Review: Changing Occupations, Changing Challenges: A Review Essay
Members get first shot at $6,000 upgrades
BPA and the Donor
What Will All the Students Do?
A Jukebox on MySpace That Takes Aim at Apple
Countering Counterfeiting to Protect our Workers and Communities
Editorial: Real Life Economy
When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder
Editorial: Candidate McCain’s Big Decision
Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown
Toxic Smoke and Mirrors
U.S. Trails High-Income Countries in Parental Leave Policies
Randi Weingarten and the National American Federation of Teachers: No Child Left Unhealed
Cities Debate Privatizing Public Infrastructure
Editorial: Where’s the Prosperity?
FPA Executive Director Gene Upshaw Dies
A Toxic Proposal
Book Review: When Companies Get Cheap, Workers Get Unhappy
Last-Minute Mischief for Labor Department
Press Release: Randi Weingarten Elected AFT President
Welcome Lowell Peterson, New WGAE Executive Director
Press Release: IATSE President Tom Short Announces Retirement
A Hidden Toll on Employment
Editorial: No Friend of the Workers
Union Head Saw Strides, Setbacks
Op-Ed: Bits, Bands and Books
Editorial: Super Union: Hands Across the Water Strengthen Labor Solidarity
Op-Ed: The Working Wounded
Virginia Commonwealth’s Secret Deal
Take the AFL-CIO Ask A Working Woman Survey
Editorial: Six Votes, Then and Now
Working Life (High and Low)
How Private Health Coverage Works: A Primer – 2008 Update
A Decade of Decline - The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006
Teachers’ Work Patterns: When Where and How Much Do U.S. Teachers Work?
Hollywood Producer Set to Make Shows for Xbox
Editorial: The Political Specter at Justice
How Government Adds to Ranks of Uninsured
The Private Sector’s Tramping in Iraq
Editorial: New Hope for the Rich
Editorial: A Prescription for Flu Shots
Nurses’ Health: A Survey on Health and Chemical Exposures
Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility
Health Care Costs Snapshot on Changes in Wages and Benefits issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation
Julie Christie at the SAGs: ‘All unions are important’
Women’s Health Insurance Coverage Fact Sheet
No Insurance, Poor Health
A License for Local Reporting
A Producer of Movies to Try Hand at Games
The US Is Home of Medical Haves and Have-Nots
The Big Picture: In the strike, the studios are playing to win
"I Knew I Could Do this Work," Seven Strategies That Promote Women’s Activism and Leadership in Unions
A Nation of Haves and Have-Nots?
DPE Executive Director David Cohen on Shaping the Future of Work (from Perspectives on Work, Winter 2008)
Non Sequitur comic strip on writers’ strike
Webisodes of ‘Lost’: Model Deal for Writers?
What’s Making Writers and Studios So Nervous
Editorial: An Overdue Step for Equal Justice
Editorial: Veterans Without Health Care
Please, please, please, FCC
Copps, A Liberal Voice on the FCC, Knows How to Get His Message Out
Memorial Information for UAN President Cheryl L. Johnson, RN, provided by the Michigan Nurses Association
UAN Mourns Passing of President Cheryl L. Johnson, RN
Health Care for Bridges: A Search for Diagnostic Tools
America’s Lagging Health Care System
Editorial: Act on the Shield Law
Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Defending Employee Rights and Union Rights at the Library of Congress: AFSCME Local 2910
Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2006
For Shanker, Education Was a Labor of Love
Washington’s Brain Drain
Editorial: A Shield for the Public
Editorial: The Battle Over Health Care
Kaiser Family Fund: Updates More than 50 Global Health Indicators
Paid Parental Leave is still Not Standard
Earnings by gender: evidence from Census 2000 - Daniel H. Weinberg
At IBM, a Vacation Anytime, or Maybe None
Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
Business Owner Welcomes Bush, But Not His Ideas on Health Care
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource
The Modern Librarian: A Role Worth Checking Out
Free Trade’s Great, but Offshoring Rattles Me
Highway Robbery II
Editorial: Toward a Federal Shield Law
American Association of University Women (AAUW) report, April 2007: Behind the Pay Gap
Taking Teachers' Unions to Task
The Great Labor Shortage Lie
CDs of DPE Lunch & Learns on the Health Care Crisis Available
Actors’ Equity Names Connolly Executive Director
Transportation Day of Action May 17
Union Busting at the Library of Congress, March 30, 2007
Statement of support for performers in Canada and ACTRA
DPE Conference: Crossing Kentucky River: Next Steps for Professional and Technical Employees, Wed. Feb. 7, 2007
Interview: Kate Bronfenbrenner on American Labor Unions
White Collar Perspectives on Workplace Issues: How Progressives Can Make the Case for Unions
2006 BLS Report on Women in the Labor Force
New Website on Organizing Women
The Professional Presumption: Do Professional Employees Really Have Equal Bargaining Power When They Enter Into Employment-Related Adhesion Contracts
Editorial: College Aid Cutbacks (Nov. 1, 2006)
Remarks by UAN President Cheryl Johnson, RN: Center for American Progress Forum on the Kentucky River Cases--Sept. 22, 2006
DPE Executive Director Mike Gildea Retires
Take The 2006 Ask a Working Woman Survey
BLS Chart: Professional & Related Occupations with many job openings, projected 2004-14
Study: Solving the Nursing Crisis Through Higher Wages
Women Organizing Women: How Do We Rock the Boat without Getting Thrown Overboard?
Health Care Programs And Resources
Organizing Professionals in the 21st Century: Conference Papers and Other Materials
DPE Special Program, 9/15/05: What’s Wrong with the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Union Focus in New Book 50 Ways to Improve Women’s Lives
Poll Documents Adverse Impact of Media Consolidation

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