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Unions: Organizing, Bargaining and Servicing: 06/28/2009 Washington Public Schools Hire Some Foreign Teachers 06/28/2009 NYC Hit By Nerd Job Rob 06/23/2009 Editorial: Paycheck Fairness 06/19/2009 Firefighters See Cuts Eroding Safety 06/09/2009 Screen Actors Approve New Hollywood Contract 06/01/2009 Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Vote for AFT 05/27/2009 Unions and Publishers Join to Fight Piracy 05/22/2009 SAG, AFTRA Members Ratify Commercials Pact 05/20/2009 Professionals for the Public Interest Launches: DPE President Paul E. Almeida Opens Event (video of his comments) 04/20/2009 Bid to Organize Nurses Faces Setback in Congress	Legislative, Legal and Regulatory Issues: 06/26/2009 Republicans Focus on Guest Workers in Immigration Debate 06/10/2009 French Council Defangs Plan to Crack Down on Internet Piracy 05/05/2009 Obama's Corporate Tax Plan Unnerves Indian Business 04/29/2009 Recession Leaves Health Agencies Weakened in Swine Flu Defense 04/06/2009 Digital Piracy's Spread Prompts Hearing 03/25/2009 Journal Articles Question Plan for Digital Health Records 03/24/2009 Problems Persist, but the N.E.A. and Cultural Groups See Progress Under Obama 03/24/2009 Enforcement Agency Is Failing Workers, Report Says 03/09/2009 Obama Puts His Own Spin on Mix of Science With Politics 03/06/2009 In Divide Over Health Care Haul, 2 Major Unions Withdraw From a Coalition
News & Entertainment: 05/12/2009 Producer is Chosen to Lead Arts Endowment 01/11/2009 Fiction Reading Increases for Adults 01/10/2009 'The Nation's Square' 01/06/2009 Hope for a Brighter Future on a Darker Broadway 01/19/2008 SAG Show Is New Star of Awards Telecasts 12/11/2006 Squeezing Money from the Music 08/25/2006 AOL to Sell Downloads from 4 Studios 08/20/2006 Broadway's Touring Shows Find Seats Harder to Sell 08/09/2006 European Panel Investigates DVD-Standards Rivalry 07/23/2006 Hollywood Clicks on the Work of Web Auteurs	Telecommunications and Media Ownership: 12/19/2007 FCC Reshapes Rules Limiting Media Industry 11/19/2007 Bad Reviews Pile Up for FCC Chief's Plan 11/14/2007 Few Friends for Proposal on Media 11/14/2007 Tribune Future Hinges on FCC 10/23/2007 Help Stop Big Media Giveaway 10/18/2007 Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners 10/12/2007 ABC Reshapes Evening News for the Web 01/16/2007 Newspaper Ownership is Turning the Page 11/20/2006 176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership with Yahoo 01/23/2006 Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio Too
Women in the Workplace: 02/04/2009 Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios 07/22/2008 Poor Economy Slams Brakes on Women's Workplace Progress 02/09/2008 Lobbying & Law - Gender Bias in the Labs 05/02/2007 Many Female Lawyers Dropping off Path to Partnership 04/29/2007 Her Pay Gap Begins Right After Graduation 04/24/2007 U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor: Ensuring Equal Pay for Women 08/13/2006 Women in Top Ranks Pull Up the Pay of Others 03/31/2006 Women Still Underrepresented Among Highest Earners 03/30/2006 Kaiser Family Foundation: New Women's Health Insurance Coverage Fact Sheet 02/10/2006 Bibliography on Pay Equity	Health Care: 01/26/2009 Editorial: Is That Device Safe? 01/12/2009 Editorial: Not What We Call Due Diligence 12/30/2008 City to Pay Doctors to Contribute to Database 07/08/2008 Nurses Step Up Efforts to Protect Against Workplace Assaults 07/05/2008 Black Nurses Earn Less Than Whites 07/01/2008 Vital Issues for All Americans: the Challenges of Preserving Social Security and Access to Adequate Health Care, DPE, AFL-CIO/American Library Association program 06/10/2008 How Many are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults 04/11/2008 Report: Dying for Coverage 03/31/2008 Most Docs Favor National Health Insurance 03/04/2008 Survey: The Public on Prescription Drugs and Companies
High Tech: 07/28/2008 Offshoring is Transforming U.S. Engineering 09/10/2007 Warner Shifts Web Course, Shouldering Video Costs 09/10/2007 Rewriting Hollywood's Rules 09/04/2007 Lobbying in U.S., Indian Firms Present an American Face 07/11/2007 The H-1B Visa: Do the Math 06/27/2007 Transcript: President Paul E. Almeida on Lou Dobbs Tonight 06/25/2007 High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill 05/30/2007 New York Times Criticizes 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' 04/17/2007 Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold 04/03/2007 Transcript: Help Wanted: Non-H-1B Workers	Trends in Employment, Earnings, Training and Education: 06/23/2009 Despite Recession, Demand for Skilled Labor is High 06/19/2009 A Literary Legend Fights For a Ventura County Library 05/18/2009 In New York, Mrs. Obama Praises Arts as Vital to U.S. 05/05/2009 Cleveland Museum of Art Cutting Salaries and Expenses, But Not Jobs 04/12/2009 Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight 04/07/2009 Report Envisions Teacher Shortage Looming 04/03/2009 New York Nonprofit Theaters Brace for Even Tougher Season 04/01/2009 Downtown Puts New Stresses on Libraries 03/16/2009 Library Budget Cuts Put Book Borrowing At Risk 02/05/2009 As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force