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Fighting the good fight for immigrant workers in Mississippi ... and winning
The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor.Image:Â Facing...
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New Mississippi law boosts local hiring in disaster's wake
The Mississippi Jobs First law encourages cleanup and recovery contractors to hire local workers -- a key step toward revitalizing disaster-stricken communities.Image:Â Facing South Appreciate this...
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UAW targets Mississippi Nissan plant for its Southern campaign
The United Auto Workers is focusing its do-or-die Southern campaign on the giant 3,000-worker Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., where many in the largely African-American workforce have already pledged...
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Mississippi weakens its already weak workers' compensation law
Mississippi's revised workers' compensation law went into effect this month, putting the burden on workers to prove injuries are job-related. The Republican governor says it shows corporations that the...
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UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie revised?
When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing...
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An action-packed 2013 in store for Southern labor
The new year promises lots of action on the labor front -- and as always in the South, it comes with heavy baggage from the past.Image:Â Sen. Eastland symbolized Old South segregationism and...
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VOICES: As Obama lays out progressive agenda, white South slips into...
President Obama outlined a decidedly progressive-minded agenda for his second term -- one the South's white oligarchy of business, political, religious and media leaders will fight tooth and...
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What's needed for labor success in the South: Some Holiness fire!
What was true for the civil rights movement in the 1960s is true for the labor movement today: Any social movement in the South needs religion as part of its DNA if it's going to succeed.Image:Â (Photo...
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The South, still ruled by 'the handful'
As the South's hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's description of the region's government as "with the handful, for...
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Southern leaders opt to exclude 2.7M from health care
Across the South, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down federal funding to expand Medicaid, excluding millions of uninsured, working-poor residents from health care coverage --...
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Students find their cause in the UAW for Nissan's Mississippi workers
College students from across the South are playing a key role in helping workers form a union at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss.Image:Â Hayat Mohamed is one of the college students helping workers...
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Old-fashioned American hypocrisy: The NAACP partners with Nissan, and Walmart...
The NAACP partners with Nissan, which is fighting union organizing efforts at plants in Mississippi and Tennessee? What would Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers say? And Walmart promoting...
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AFL-CIO resolves to organize the South
With workplace organizing efforts in the region already making progress, the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution at its national convention this week to make unionizing the South one of its top...
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A 'crimmigration' conference, Walmart on the dole in Mississippi, and Kellogg...
A look at what's happening in labor around the South, from a conference on the tragic consequences of U.S. drug policy, to corporate welfare in Mississippi, to a union's struggle with a cereal giant in...
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Through song, Mississippi Delta teens speak out on the Affordable Care Act
The national debate over "Obamacare" rages on, but whose voices are being heard? Not those of black teenagers in the impoverished Mississippi Delta -- at least until now.Image:Â A new video offers...
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UAW takes its case against Nissan in Mississippi to a global court
Frustrated with the weakness of U.S. labor laws, the United Auto Workers is appealing to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the U.S. State Department to ensure a...
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Border Crisis: Southern communities welcome immigrant children
While anti-immigrant sentiment has flared up in the South in response to the flood of Central American children seeking refuge in the United States, some Southern leaders have set a different tone by...
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What would Jesus the Migrant say to Mississippi politicians this year?
The Bible instructs us to "love the stranger," but migrants probably won't be feeling much love this year in Mississippi. Gov. Phil Bryant is up for re-election, and he has built his political career...
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Governors' Big Oil-assisted lobbying pays off in Obama's Atlantic drilling plan
The Obama administration has proposed opening Atlantic waters to offshore oil and gas drilling after years of being lobbied by a coalition of coastal-state governors that had more than a little...
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DRIVE TO DRILL: Energy lobbyists behind governors' crusade for Atlantic oil
Five years after the BP disaster, a group of governors led by North Carolina's Pat McCrory is pushing for drilling in the Atlantic. A Facing South special investigation looks at the group's secretive...
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DRIVE TO DRILL: The growing resistance to Atlantic oil and gas drilling
Southern governors, working in concert with energy industry lobbyists, are pressing the Obama administration to open ocean waters off the East Coast from Virginia to Georgia to oil and gas development....
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Companies opposing Mississippi's anti-LGBT law helped elect its proponents
At least 24 companies publicly opposing Mississippi's law allowing discrimination against LGBT people have helped finance the election of the law's sponsors and the governor who signed it. A similar...
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The legislative backlash against LGBT equality across the South
Announcing the U.S. Justice Department would sue North Carolina over its anti-transgender "bathroom bill," Attorney General Loretta Lynch noted there's historically been backlash to equality gains....
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